As Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder issued a 2010 memo granting increased discretion for US attorneys.
Mr. Kim was quick to give Mr. Wittlin some increased leeway, naming him co-head of the firm's global interest rates product group, which has now become a trading engine room for the firm.
Even granting a little leeway for hype, it is dangerous to proclaim to be first at anything, especially concerning the Internet.
The department is expected to complete an ethics report about Bush administration officials who drafted memos, since discredited, granting leeway for harsh interrogation standards.
The guys perpetuating the abuse and granting leeway for suspected pedophiles to have access to more children also created the conditions for the abuse.
They began looking at a 2008 state guideline that granted some leeway for isolated demolitions of abandoned buildings.
What's more, she added, owners of less than 10,000 square feet of property would actually benefit from the new regulations, which grant more leeway for smaller lots than current rules do.
He later said he "would hope that history would grant me leeway for dropping the syllable and understand that it was certainly intended, even if it was not said although it might actually have been".
The methodology is founded on the premise that, absent a consensus on social policy priorities, that are, on which indicators are more important and should be given higher weights in the index, each state is granted leeway for deciding how to weigh its own indicators and the most favorable weights for indicators are determined for each state.
More troubling still is that "disorderly or disruptive conduct" remains undefined, granting infinite leeway to prosecutors.
The highway administration, an agency of the federal Department of Transportation, was greeted with waves of criticism and has since eased or eliminated many deadlines for compliance, granting much more leeway in permitting nonconforming signs to remain until they are physically worn out.
