How To Use Leeway In A Sentence
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A weatherly ship is one that works well to windward, making but little leeway.
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Doing so will provide them with more leeway to loosen policy should global conditions take a sharp turn for the worse.
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It has to make up the leeway elsewhere through its legendary cost-cutting programmes.
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Creative leeway has always been granted to those novelists and letter writers who are able to pull off a controversial use of rhetoric with talent and grace.
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I can only hope that the legislature rectifies this problem by instituting greater fines and gives the CDOW more leeway in aggressively pursuing these reckless and idiotic individuals.
Bears Kill Colorado Woman Who Fed Them
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Elsewhere, however, or in fur and jewelry boutiques that lease space in department stores, salespeople working on commission are often allowed leeway to move merchandise, he said.
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Though he allows leeway for entertaining stories about colleagues.
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I can only imagine this could make for some really compelling literature -- after all, it was the flexibility of the English language that gave Shakespeare such leeway for brilliance in his day -- but when daily news depends on clarity and brevity, overcoming a basic problem like an unstandardized language is no small feat.
Victoria Fine: Why Can't Kurdish Journalists Write Well? A Look at Modern Media in Iraq
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Rarely do schoolteachers have leeway to teach classes the way they want.
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Though he allows leeway for entertaining stories about colleagues.
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But giving key men just a little leeway seems reasonable.
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Firstly, that while we have certain leeway in selecting the tasks for our troops within the alliance, we have not full licence to dictate the type of weapons our troops are to use in carrying out these commitments.
The Future of Canadian Defence in the Nuclear Era
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This year, the scent of riches meant little leeway would be given.
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Given great leeway in implementing welfare reform, the states were as insatiable as the federal government in crafting rules designed to cut welfare caseloads.
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Additionally, employees with a disability that may cloud their judgment should be given extra leeway.
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She hid her face for a second with the fan, licking the barbed edges of the pins that gave it its shape then bent down close to his face, giving him full leeway to her mouth.
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Since Hilbert was less than completely clear on what the finitary standpoint consists in, there is some leeway in setting up the constraints, epistemological and otherwise, an analysis of finitist operation and proof must fulfill.
Hilbert's Program
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Alternatively, Congress should have more leeway to fashion remedies because the states are more likely to be engaging in invidious discrimination where laws or practices touching upon suspect classifications are concerned.
Balkinization
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So, instead of making speed through the water toward deep sea, I hove the Elsinore to on the starboard tack with no more than leeway driftage to the west and south.
CHAPTER XLVI
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We did allow some leeway, some flexibility, if experience overrode not having a high school diploma.
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In fighter squadrons, that allowed considerable leeway.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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The retreat of the text gives White too much leeway in the centre.
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You have to give the guys a little bit of leeway.
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It's nice to have that leeway, in case there are any bad days lurking.
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‘Besides, the hectic academic schedule does not provide them any leeway,’ he says.
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Typically, I provide independent films an amount of leeway when it comes to video and audio quality, but this movie needs no such special consideration.
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As I see it when hairstyle is short then you also have some leeway to your style you might gell your hair for instance.
Hair Length and the Demand for Haircuts, II, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Local councils will be given some leeway as to how they implement the legislation.
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And I think the press is at least giving them leeway now to make those moves.
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That allows little leeway if extra time is needed to make up for any rain delays.
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My legs could not keep up with hers despite me having some leeway on the rope.
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This would give them leeway to rest during days when it was against them, or they were becalmed with no wind at all.
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Up here in the still vastness there is no margin for error, no wiggle room, no leeway between getting it right and dying.
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He's got a lot of leeway to make up in his studies after his illness.
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The northerners were never allowed any leeway.
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In other respects the Bill states the law broadly, leaving considerable leeway to prosecutors.
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Of course that's not to say they should be running sanctioned 12 round title fights after innocuous challenges, but there's certainly some leeway here for the "afters".
The Offside
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And there is little leeway for women.
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She's been off school for a month, so she has a lot of leeway to make up.
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We've worked up the offer, but since T is anal-retentive he does not trust the home inspection contingency clause on the Offer to Purchase in Midwestern State (he doesn't think it protects the buyer enough, and gives too much leeway to the seller).
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Only last autumn, the new 12A category was introduced to give parents more leeway and say in their children's cinema viewing.
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A common (but not universal) view in Asia of how aid should be managed is to allow benefactor nations leeway to implement their own reforms.
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It does help to know that period of leeway is built in; it helps me to let go of that polished draft for the first time.
Being Done by Victoria Janssen
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This leaves civil servants charged with administering this system much leeway; an invitation to the sort of corruption that has already plagued the immigration service.
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After the banking crisis of 2008-09, the right course would have been for countries with enough fiscal leeway to boost borrowing and spending.
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The blood relationship allows these women certain leeway and influence that a wife does not have.
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Though there is more duty on importing cars, the government has given leeway to people intending to invest in vehicle assembly plants, so that instead of importing vehicles they can be obtained locally.
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There is a little more leeway with earlier toys and anything particularly rare and choice.
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I can only hope that the legislature rectifies this problem by instituting greater fines and gives the CDOW more leeway in aggressively pursuing these reckless and idiotic individuals.
Bears Kill Colorado Woman Who Fed Them
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But bureaucrats have scant leeway to exercise judgment.
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He was afforded a bit of leeway as a World Cup semi-finalist, as the normal length of service is two years.
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But the situation was fluid, and individual commanders had a lot of leeway.
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Rarely do schoolteachers have leeway to teach classes the way they want.
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In fact, the anomalous status gave him greater leeway.
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The parking space was big enough, but there wasn't much leeway, ie margin for error.
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He's unlikely to make up the leeway at this stage of the race.
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As she was in the house with no worries of cars, I had more leeway to guiltlessly burst out laughing as she ran full speed from one end of the house to the other, occasionally looking backwards only to be surprised at how fast that bag could run!
Poursuivre - French Word-A-Day
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Allie jumped in heatedly: "Myra, I have told you and told you that anonymous doesn't mean until you're in a closed room or that you coming out with your own identification gives them automatic leeway --
GINNY BATES, THE BEGINNING
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Speaking to the Sligo Weekender, Mayor Devins said the Minister had given the Council a certain amount of leeway.
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The President said that he wanted to give states more leeway to pursue their own health-care reforms.
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Devlin also alleges that Parker allowed Scott Supply some leeway normally not granted to ordinary bidders.
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In this respect, Britain is better placed than most, since base rates of 4.75% give the Bank of England ample leeway to loosen monetary policy.
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Both interviewer and respondent are allowed much greater leeway in asking and answering questions than is the case with the structured interview.
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He used this professional leeway to venture away from his stock-in-trade gospel/soul sound into balladry and country music, meeting with a good deal of success.
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There is very little leeway to support a more sustained advance in share prices, he said.
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There is no leeway here, no second chances, andno benefit of the doubt.
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Payment Indicator ( "TPI") (note 2): Probable Covered Bonds Rating: Aaa TPI Leeway (note 2):
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Devlin also alleges that Parker allowed Scott Supply some leeway normally not granted to ordinary bidders.
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And they're pushing for greater leeway in launching cyberattacks against computers illegally transmitting copyrighted files.
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The incident outraged the international press and eventually forced Soviet officials to give leeway to the independent artists.
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At least a bit of leeway is given in the UK.
Times, Sunday Times
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Local councils will be given some leeway as to how they implement the legislation.
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The quoted date does not seem compatible with the time-scale of biblical history, even allowing for some leeway in interpreting the genealogical information.
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Local councils will be given some leeway as to how they implement the legislation.
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His ship's uniform was casual, allowing the crew some leeway in their dress, with regulation insignia as the only standard.
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Local councils will be given some leeway as to how they implement the legislation.
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Losing some staff who have been convicted for serious offences is a good thing but there seems to be no leeway.
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The Bear Stearns funds 'situation demonstrates the considerable leeway funds have in valuing illiquid assets.
Archive 2007-06-01
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A very annoying problem and I gave him some leeway as he seemed fairly intelligent, and that's bleeding annoying.
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This means they have little leeway to maintain payments should profits suddenly nosedive.
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He was afforded a bit of leeway as a World Cup semi-finalist, as the normal length of service is two years.
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It happened that the author was also given some leeway with respect to the creative details.
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This itinerary leaves us plenty of leeway.
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This phenomenon of murder emerged clearly when the U.S. pushed its pseudodevelopment and anti-industrialization program through the Marcos fascist dictatorship which was supported by an avalanche of foreign loans, encouraged to aggravate and deepen the agrarian and semifeudal character of the economy, and which was given all the leeway to undertake the most unbridled bureaucratic corruption and build up the coercive apparatuses of the state.
Crisis of the Semifeudal Economy - Lectures on Phillippine Crisis and Revolution
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The law enforcement officers have taken a back seat giving these prostitutes the leeway to do their business undisturbed.
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We simply could not afford to allow them this leeway if we were going to beat them.
ONE HUNDRED DAYS
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• Despite official promises that higher limits would be more strictly enforced, we're getting more leeway from the police, who all but ignore speeders 10 to 15 mph over the limit.
USATODAY.com - Speeders outgun new limits
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Instead of premixing everything onto one batch of tracks with no leeway, we've spread the effects out over several batches.
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Ships may make use of the reference table to workout their own leeway tables conveniently.
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The circumstances of the succession and the dismal, almost bankrupt, situation the province found itself in at the time, gave him leeway to announce severe belt-tightening measures.
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Retired chiefs of the defence staff have customarily been allowed more leeway than retired civil servants.
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States now have more leeway to restrict the sale of guns.
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Sathekge said: "Friday is going to be a difficult day and companies that have not given their staff some leeway may be affected by presentism, that is staff are at work but not working.
IOL: News
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Doing so will provide them with more leeway to loosen policy should global conditions take a sharp turn for the worse.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fighter squadrons, that allowed considerable leeway.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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This means they have little leeway to maintain payments should profits suddenly nosedive.
Times, Sunday Times
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This means they have little leeway to maintain payments should profits suddenly nosedive.
Times, Sunday Times
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A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision last month giving judges more leeway in deciding federal prison terms could be good news for computer intruders who don't fit the classic criminal mold, legal experts say.
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Instead, the version of the agreement that emerged contained the phrase "legal force"—a broader term that is seen as offering governments more leeway to identify how to curb emissions.
China, India, U.S. Take Steps Toward Emissions Deal
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For the most part, levels are approached in a linear fashion although you do have some leeway in choosing which stages of every level you want to tackle thanks to the overhead map.
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A single bat was created and given leeway to automatically flap its wings.
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That the US or other place stays mum and gives leeway is another issue entirely.
Past incorrect posts on "Dual Citizenship"
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The problem, then, is to find some way to measure a student's potential that still leaves administrators enough leeway to ensure that campus life benefits from a rich variety of excellences and life experiences.
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Because of it she had been given more freedom and leeway then other daughters of kings.
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It gives couples the leeway to be able to look after an elderly relative and to balance family life more effectively.
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Thus she made as much leeway as headway, could get along very nearly as fast with the wind ahead as when it was apoop, and was particularly great in a calm; in consequence of which singular advantages she made out to accomplish her voyage in a very few months, and came to anchor at the mouth of the Hudson a little to the east of Gibbet Island.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
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Certainly, the government deserves a significant amount of leeway when it comes to endorsing the current administration.
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He hoped that there would be common sense in the policing of the laws and leeway given.
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Up here in the still vastness there is no margin for error, no wiggle room, no leeway between getting it right and dying.
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they gave him some leeway so he could decide what he wanted to do
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The government does not have much leeway in foreign policy.
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It is not clear what leeway the Court will grant Congress to interpret and enforce constitutional rights.
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Local councils will be given some leeway as to how they implement the legislation.
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It still gives companies too much leeway.
Times, Sunday Times
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The justices refused to backtrack from a 5-4 decision that struck down a state sentencing system because it gave judges too much leeway in sentencing.
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The deal is also expected to further erode job classifications and shop floor protections, and grant the auto companies substantial leeway in moving workers from job to job and plant to plant.
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As for Cassini, the camera is a facility instrument, not a PI-led investigation, thus NASA had more leeway in being able to "make" the team release their pictures.
LRO Image Availability Update - NASA Watch
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The government does not have much leeway in foreign policy.
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On that I feel you have to give such men leeway.
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This procedure provides for lots of leeway
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Though he allows leeway for entertaining stories about colleagues.
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Chretien gave his ministers a lot more leeway, so this centralization is not some immutable law, it is a matter of preference of the party in charge and the PM.
Matthew Yglesias » Checks and Balances
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But the market's freedom gives veterinarians leeway in pricing, which some pet owners find objectionable.
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Shanghai has introduced other exceptions, including more leeway for fishermen and farmers.
Times, Sunday Times
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In each case, the reforms were hedged in with clauses designed to preserve leeway for the authorities.
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In rural shires some councils need to be given a bit of leeway.
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Consumers have been given too much leeway with credit relative to their incomes.
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He's unlikely to make up the leeway at this stage of the race.
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Where I am allowed considerable leeway is in expanding situations and characters.
SF Signal Gang-Interviews Alan Dean Foster
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This implies that the job has been designed to require a wide range of qualifications and to offer considerable leeway or latitude in deciding what to do and how to do it.
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Also: Raising taxes to redistribute wealth in the present ignores the long-term disinclination to work hard in the long term; contrasted with giving companies leeway to run rampant in the present ignores the long-term sacrifice of the power of the people to the hands of said companies.
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Quite how much leeway he gives his sons only they will know.
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Still, with a movie this special, having a good technical presentation provides some forgiving leeway for an otherwise lamentable lack of contextual material.
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Some players have gifts that need a little leeway.
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Perhaps a little leeway in terminology should be allowed.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Television stations that carry investigative programs should also be given more leeway to pursue stories at different levels.
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Indeed, turmoil in global financial markets and the specter of renewed recession in the developed world have convinced several Asian central banks to stay on hold this month, though India's large domestic market insulates it somewhat from global ructions and gives it more policy leeway.
RBI Raises Key Interest Rate
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He used this professional leeway to venture away from his stock-in-trade gospel/soul sound into balladry and country music, meeting with a good deal of success.
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Our readers have a fair amount of leeway in choosing where they earn those frequent-traveler points.
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It is my job to give him as much opportunity and leeway to go ahead and express himself.
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This means they have little leeway to maintain payments should profits suddenly nosedive.
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