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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disallow.

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Examples

  • The robots do not have to follow your suggestions, they can ignore your "disallows".

    LXer Linux News 2010

  • The robots do not have to follow your suggestions, they can ignore your "disallows".

    LXer Linux News 2010

  • In their allowed pleasures and pastimes, let them wear that spiritual hauberk which is invulnerable to the darts of the wicked; let them steadfastly set their faces against whatever thy word disallows; and, should fiery trial and temptation beset them, enable them, having done all, to stand. "

    Jacques Bonneval Anne Manning 1843

  • (Note that the GSL explicitly disallows ANYTHING described as a “web site”.)

    WotC On The Fansite-Closing Warpath « Geek Related 2009

  • A disgusted Capitol Hill staffer tells me: "You don't need to have an advance degree from Harvard's Kennedy School or, for that matter, even a Webster's to know when a leader suppresses dissent and disallows free elections he may qualify as a dictator."

    Obama blowing it again in the Middle East Jennifer Rubin 2011

  • The same will be the case for the clades nesting within Eukarya, if their defining characters are inferred to originate not in discrete cells, but communally (whatever that means — I don't know, except that Woese disallows inferences to discrete ancestors).

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • Paul Nelson: The same will be the case for the clades nesting within Eukarya, if their defining characters are inferred to originate not in discrete cells, but communally (whatever that means — I don't know, except that Woese disallows inferences to discrete ancestors).

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • What matters is that experience confirms this notion, but disallows the anarchy of nature.

    Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

  • The same will be the case for the clades nesting within Eukarya, if their defining characters are inferred to originate not in discrete cells, but communally (whatever that means — I don't know, except that Woese disallows inferences to discrete ancestors).

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • I do believe it is impossible for one who disallows divine possibilities to be objective with regard to evidence favoring the authenticity of the Gosples.

    An Amazing First Century 2009

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