White House officials also said Mr. Snow had been given leeway to be looser and to make more of a show of the daily news briefings, while trying to make nice to a press corps that has grown increasingly assertive as Mr. Bush's political strength has ebbed.
This is also aided by Parliament's mandate as the only directly democratic institution, which has given it leeway to have greater control over legislation than other institutions, for example over its changes to the Bolkestein directive in 2006.
And the Egyptian judiciary, which is deeply divided about it, has given him leeway to implement at least parts of it as acts of sovereignty.
(For three decades, The Times has given me leeway to discuss taboo slang terms in this space under scholarly, smirk-free cover; one distressed copy editor who felt I was getting away with murder suggested my telephone extension be changed to 007).
In Facebook's original S-1, it had given itself leeway to sell up to 122 million shares to the public market in a secondary offering to pay for taxes involved in settling the distribution of pre-2011 RSUs.
It is their job to engage with the gangs, and the newest crackdown has given them additional leeway to do just that.
Borel's agent, Jerry Hissam, has kept his rider busy at Saratoga but has given him some leeway to relax.
But George Bush's dislodging of two chauvinistically Sunni regimes, in Afghanistan and Iraq, has given Shias new leeway to affect the region's politics.
He said that there had not been any talks about a new contract with the Stars, but added that Joe Nieuwendyk, the general manager and a former teammate, has given him "the leeway" to take his time.
"I think that conservatives and basically the conference as a whole has given a lot of leeway to Paul to sit down and work with Patty to find solutions," said Representative Sean Duffy, another Wisconsin Republican.
