For someone who has risen to power in large part by launching prosecutorial attacks on others' ethics, Gingrich has been remarkably willing to exploit those gray areas that call into question his own ethics.
"It was a gray area, so we would call and take the chance," Ms. Allensworth said.
In between is a large range of drinking, including a gray area that could be called the almost alcoholic zone.
But if, like me, you spent $4,000 last summer to remove a gigantic, dangerous oak tree and your backyard was ripped up by trucks in the process, putting in seed and watering it would be somewhat iffy -- what Mr. Hart calls "a gray area".
Some calls are quite easy to make, and some calls enter that gray area.
But evaluating students' levels of need is a judgment call, a gray area that can be hard to prosecute unless there is evidence that someone plainly lied, Zeno said.
McNabb skillfully operates in what defensive coaches and players call the gray area, meaning McNabb will approach the line of scrimmage as close as possible, draw in the defensive backs, and when one of his receivers is loose, throw the ball.
In the vibrant scene around the edges of orthodoxy, which Sudin calls "a colorful gray area," they could feel comfortable asking questions about their faith that would be considered inappropriate, or even heretical, by a rabbi.
Other ads, such as those that mention a candidate but do not call for the candidate's election or defeat, fall into what lawyers have called a legal gray area.
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What you're doing is … well, let's call it a moral gray area.
