The crackdown on protesters doesn't necessarily indicate that he is tightening his grip on power; it may be that the secret police, long given too much leeway, have been taking matters into their own hands.
She attributed the success of her tenure in Indianapolis partly to the leeway she has been given by the museum's director, Maxwell L. Anderson.
"We're very happy with stall eight, which gives us a bit more leeway, and Richard has been down to ride her since winning on her at Newmarket [last time].
A sticking point has been how much leeway judges should have.
Yet he has been given much leeway, and his reckless economic and risky foreign policies have dragged Iran into a state of near-constant crisis.
The generals would report to the new overall military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who will be responsible for the overall NATO strategy and who has been given extensive leeway by the United States to pick his direct subordinates.
Senior American officials say that is still the administration's position, but they say that Mr. Hill has been given more leeway than his predecessor, James A. Kelly, about what tack to take with the North Koreans, including one-on-one meetings.
General Franks, who is charged with running the Afghan campaign's day-to-day operations, has been given broad leeway to wage the war as he sees fit, within prescribed limits, Pentagon officials said.
In his long essay Attention!, Joshua Cohen shows himself to be one of Montaigne's offspring, and has been given the leeway by his publisher to play with his subject over 60,000 words, right up until the last drop of blood has been squeezed from the stone of his subject.
But he said he has been given no leeway, just orders to remove years of history and a space that is considered home not just to him and his neighbors, but to the two mockingbirds and three robins that feed off the fruit, and to an owl that occasionally surprises them with a visit.
