allows me acquiring vs allows me to acquire

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• Allow me this opportunity to congratulate the Slovenian Presidency.
• Allow me firstly to thank Commissioner Vitorino for his valuable comments.
• Allow me to stress two points.
• Allow me to highlight one more point.
• Allow me to say something on the dispute settlement procedure.
• Which allows me certain jurisdictional freedoms.
• The doctor didn't allow me to go out.
• Allow me to introduce you to Mr. White.
• Allow me to introduce you to Mr. White.
• My father didn't allow me to marry him.
• My father won't allow me to keep a dog.
• It's held in a geographic information system which allows me to zoom in.
• Allow me to tell you about my four minutes of fame.
• And musical notation allows me a more nuanced way of translating information without compromising it.
• Allow me to begin with those parts with which we agree.
• Mr President, allow me to make one comment.
• Allow me to focus on some points that you also highlighted in your report.
• In conclusion, allow me to once again congratulate the rapporteur on his good report.
• To conclude, allow me to express my opinion on the amendments.
• Madam President, please allow me to make a technical remark.

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• This allows EU citizens to acquire information in their mother tongue about the other 26 countries.
• It would be a breakthrough of Gaussian proportions... and allow us to acquire... the solution in a dramatically more efficient manner.
• Training policies for young people must be ambitious and must allow them to acquire skills adapted to the needs of businesses so that they can enter the labour market more easily.
• The challenges facing it mean that "Europe must have an effective decision-making mechanism soon", he said, promising his group's support in the search "for a new dynamic that will allow us to acquire the tools we need to move forward".
• The Community shall contribute to the costs of the department involved by providing the equipment and/or materials that it lacks and/or resources to allow it to acquire additional staff required in the form of experts from within the ACP States concerned or other ACP States.
• whereas there can be no lasting settlement of the Angolan conflict as long as the diamond trafficking which finances Unita allows it to acquire arms,
• (5a) encourage, possibly with European Union funding or co-funding, centres and hospitals of expertise to create specific training for professionals in certain rare diseases and allow them to acquire relevant expertise;
• The Community shall contribute to the costs of the department involved by providing the equipment and/or materials that it lacks and/or resources to allow it to acquire additional staff required in the form of experts from within the ACP States concerned or other ACP States.
• In addition, the participation of scientists in national research programmes of third countries will allow the full exploitation of the possibilities of the S & T Agreements and will allow the scientists to acquire knowledge of third country research systems and their cultures in a reciprocal way.
• Is the Commission satisfied with the decision by the British Government to allow News Corp to acquire 100 % of the satellite television provider BSkyB?
• Finally, I believe that if a suitably larger budget is made available, promotion and information action will allow European producers and farmers to acquire new markets.
• The marriage allows her to obtain Belgian citizenship and then marry a Russian Mafioso willing to pay a lot of money to acquire the same quickly.
• The guarantees allow countries in difficulties to acquire credit on the international markets more cheaply than they would at normal market rates.
• I refer to the extensive fragmentation of the national markets, which does not allow the European cinema industry to acquire a larger share of the European and global market.
• These rules should include the possibility for the consumer to allow a third party to acquire on his behalf the physical possession or control of the goods.
• The rules on delivery laid down in this Directive should include the possibility for the consumer to allow a third party to acquire on his behalf the physical possession or control of the goods.
• This would allow the European Parliament, as a branch of budgetary authority, to acquire control of the Agency's budget, thereby also contributing to a more transparent and democratic Europe.
• It is very significant that Mr Schulz has set Europe the objective of ensuring that young people have a job that allows them to have a family and to acquire a minimum amount of wealth.
• However, the more we first allow the Member States to learn the hard way, the less they will be able to criticize the Commission and Parliament for once again seeking only to acquire new powers.
• The sale of BankCo will allow the State to recover (part of) the funds injected into NR. In addition, timely exit from TPO ensures that third parties have the possibility to acquire BankCo.