Do you want to allow some things to run with high priority?

They wanted to allow the students to find their own connections.

He wanted to allow himself to believe that if his plan succeeded, she and her father would also be free.

"I want to allow people to have a fair trial first."

But she wanted to allow students from throughout the district to apply to either school.

She wanted to allow only a small one, and he gave in to her wishes.

Why would anyone want to allow someone they'd just met access to the last 5 or so years of their (online) life?

We don't want to allow any few of them to be able to access the data.

"We want to allow the parties to come to an agreement themselves."

And that's not something you want to allow to have happen.