Even in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, where some leeway was granted for the thousands of necessary demolitions, strict worker-protection rules still applied.
Some of these issues include, the amount of leeway that is granted to the Department of Environmental Protection, the overseer of gas drilling.
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.
On the Republican side, each state is granted leeway in determining how delegates are assigned.
"If scheduling leeway to pursue career advancement is granted to men who are already in high-status positions," Yale's Victoria Brescoll, one of the researchers, said in a release about the new study, "that may contribute to their more rapid career advancement.
This type of leeway has been granted in the past.
According to political tradition, however, more leeway had generally been granted in the months leading up to national elections to help create a "cheerful" atmosphere and attract voters to the polls.
A third manager who conducted Valentine's appeal failed to do basic checks on the considerable leeway that had been granted to many other apprentices on the same course.
Reporters who worked during those years said they were granted leeway to criticize government officials as long as Saddam Hussein, his sons and his special interests were left untouched.
The shooting of Powell was almost certainly legal, particularly given the extra leeway law enforcement officers are granted under the laws they enforce.
Pelosi was technically supposed to talk for one minute, but House leaders are granted leeway on how long their minute lasts.
