In "Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate," Gregory Wawro and Eric Schickler write that "the majority tolerated rules allowing considerable leeway for obstruction so long as filibusters were not pushed to the extreme of killing priority bills favored by a clear floor majority".
Dean Rudenstine objected, but Chairman Dix ruled that the committee would allow considerable leeway in the questioning.
With the exception of a couple of men, whom he has come to allow considerable leeway in carrying out their assignments, he keeps his producers on an extremely tight rein.
The interviews were semistructured: As long as students related their questions to topics covered in Managing Human Capital, they were allowed considerable leeway in what to ask and how far to go in following up on responses.
While campaign finance laws bar these super PACs from coordinating advertising and other expenditures with Senate or other campaign committees, the rules permit considerable leeway for fundraising assistance and some other contacts.
He often had no alternative but to grant considerable leeway to subordinate officers on distant campaigns.
In practice, however, such regulatory strategies leave considerable leeway in the manner in which clinical biobanking initiatives are governed.
The musicians must memorize the work, which allows for considerable leeway in detail and duration.
MacArthur's staff had considerable leeway for creative interpretation of their orders, but those orders reflected long interdepartmental deliberation in Washington, in contrast to today's hasty policymaking.
The Obama Administration has considerable leeway for reform; as with the N.S.A.'s overreach, it could, at a minimum, hold a review of C.F.A.A. prosecution and consider some limits in how the law is used.
Mr. Thompson maintained that the federal government was setting standards for the states to meet but allowing them considerable leeway in how they met them.
