Examples of leeway

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The most formidable candidates worry least about appealing to the centre and have little leeway to relocate anyway.
Professional ambitions and demands are given a great deal of leeway and include treatments and therapies of different kinds.
Stable committee assignments give members the leeway and confidence they need to become policy experts within their committee jurisdictions.
Nevertheless, he allowed him leeway in organising and conducting sledging.
Reputation-based autonomy is not absolute; the leeway granted to agencies is conditional and consistent in most respects with long-run institutional rationality.
There are fewer formal inputs to a frequentist analysis, which leaves greater leeway for modeling choices that are not always explicitly discussed.
Not least, the examples above show that a certain margin of leeway is still accorded to each member society.
The crucial winds that can cause leeway and alter progress and direction are the side winds, such as religion.
Similarly, side winds must be calculated and a course closer to the wind taken to allow for leeway.
Participating states therefore always possess some leeway in how they interpret and implement the terms of their agreement to cooperate.
Abundant resources, relevant campaign experience and the like are great advantages that provide some leeway in position adoption.
You are not a mechanistic director, but how much leeway do they have for their own fantasy?
The composer, in turn, had considerable leeway in the realisation (or subversion) of the poet's plan.
An ir reducible and significant quantum of leeway will remain.
The comparative method has never been explicit as to how much semantic leeway, and what kind, is legitimate in assembling cognate sets.
She points out a range of errors and shortcomings in their data, leaving not much leeway for their theories of origin either.
They also grant less leeway to healthcare practitioners in addition to offering rigid classifications of (pre)hypertension (4).
Review allowed her greater leeway to deal explicitly with the activists' chief concerns.
The absence of overseeing or interference by the government allows leeway to introduce local variations of rules and ensurs a convergence between rules-in-form and rules-in-use.
On the other hand, the intense emotionality and significance of traumatic experiences does not permit the victim much leeway for their interpretation or dismissal.
In fact, older workers may be given less leeway in learning new skills.
However, their crimes leave little leeway for political-legal maneuver if detected and prosecuted.
At the end of the proxy section, the document asked respondents how much leeway they wished to give proxies in interpreting preferences.
The meticulous codes allowed the judges who worked in the courts no leeway as far as procedure was concerned.
The latter allows us huge leeway, consistent with perfect accuracy.
In the understorey plots, seedlings were given a leeway of 50 cm to avoid planting directly beneath another plant.
In spite of the legislature's incentive to monitor the president, his fixed term in office gives him considerable leeway subject only to the threat of impeachment.
Instead, these citizens exhibit a 'wait and see attitude' that allows elected leaders a measure of leeway, especially in the early days of a new democratic regime.
The model approach provides leeway for acting and looking for solutions taking into account capacities and finding out the reasons for pressure of change and a model that fits them.
The ship of state was sailing on a narrower and therefore less even keel, as it were; its inflexible captaincy paradoxically giving greater leeway to external pressures.
We have a tremendous leeway to make up in the rural areas.
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