But with signs that a recovery is taking shape, Mr. Darling, who has battled his more politically minded prime minister Gordon Brown, to keep spending in check, had leeway for a raft of political sweeteners to please the party's left-leaning base.
Former presidents have leeway to withhold sensitive material for up to 12 years, including papers revealing the advice served up by White House aides.
In fact, the ECB would retain its independence and he stressed that the individual countries would have leeway to shape the frameworks proposed for individual states.
Such clinics would have leeway to decide what equipment was needed for the procedures they performed.
The Bank has a 2% target for inflation on the consumer prices index (CPI) measure, and has leeway of one percentage point either side of that.
Under federal rules, traders have leeway to value their losses.
But states have leeway in deciding who can claim.
Be cautious to mark up enough to have leeway.
The industry has said it should have greater leeway for teenagers, and Ms. Rusk said the agencies would consider those arguments.
"I give leeway for that," she says.
