Sentence examples for for variances from inspiring English sources

For variances, the board automatically assumes jurisdiction.

In addition, residents with exceptional circumstances will be able to appeal for variances.

In the last seven months, Shell was forced to repeatedly ask for variances or exemptions from federal permit requirements.

In a concession some regard as critical, property owners whose houses or land were in imminent peril of being swept away unless they erected or repaired sea walls or other protections would be able to apply for variances.

Instead, it notes that employees have to file if they are in the management pay plan or have responsibilities over "contracts, leases, franchises, concessions and applications for variances and special permits" or if they are "serving in sensitive, confidential positions".

Jon Gruen, the managing partner in a group called Denop, unveiled the plan to the Zoning Board of Appeals, when he asked for variances from the village's requirements for off-street parking.

** The old upright, a Pickering, for most of the year has its keyboard turned to the wall, beneath the town zoning map, its top piled high with rolled-up plot plans filing for variances.

Twenty years later, in 1998, he noticed that the University Club had applied for city permits for variances to get around certain building codes in order to complete a million-dollar renovation.

In 1961 the zoning code was altered to encourage developers to add public amenities to their building plans in return for variances.

"The whole point of community foundations was to allow for variances, because often, needs change and gifts given in good faith don't pan out," said Gregory Diskant, a New York lawyer who represented the Council on Foundations in Washington, which filed a "friend of the court" brief supporting the New York Community Trust.

Year-to-year comparisons in Broadway grosses and attendance are complicated for the 2011-12 season because, last year, the League calculated its data based on a 53-week year; this is done every seven years to account for variances in the calendar year, as well as to end each theater season in the last days of May.