If the Mets scored more runs, they would give their young players, prone to making mistakes, a greater margin for error, more leeway for growing pains.
You can't escape infuriating delays, but you can adjust your schedule to make room for them; don't put extra pressure on yourself by making your schedule so tight that there is no leeway for error.
But the struggling Mets' margin for error has been slim all year, too, and their leeway became minuscule Tuesday against Hiroki Kuroda, the Yankees' own ace.
When you have very little money, there's no leeway for budgeting errors.
As for really new ideas of any kind no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction.
An emergency effort to fix the site allowed hundreds of thousands of people to use it daily by early December, and the Obama administration urged insurers to give consumers leeway to sort through any remaining errors.
So whether it be a friend, family member, loved one or any person in general there should be a certain amount of leeway given to them for making errors.
The bureau has some leeway.
LEEWAY COTTAGE, by Beth Gutcheon.
