Sentence examples for leeway means from inspiring English sources
Leeway means extra space or freedom.
The danger is that more leeway may mean more rope.
From this viewpoint, the transnational activities of subnational actors are strategies to either defend autonomy and competences or to compensate for the loss of regulatory leeway using nonregulatory means of governance.
The pope endorsed "responsible parenthood"; but unlike his advisory commission, he believed that the poor couple who had six children or a disabled child had no more leeway in choosing the means for being responsible than the affluent couple with no children.
Considering that retailers typically strive for markups of at least 50percentt on apparel and 15 to 20percentt for electronics, those price cuts mean more leeway for retailers.
Underlying Mr. Picard's arguments was the question of whether those victims had the practical means or the leeway under bankruptcy law to individually pursue multibillion-dollar claims against a roster of global banks.
Precise answers were hard, because exchanges take several forms – not simply federal- or state-based – and both the court and the federal government could have had leeway in defining what it means for an exchange to be "established by the state". But the subsidies could have disappeared in as many as 37 states, meaning around 6.6 million people could have lost their tax credits.
The more your boss trusts you to get the job done, the more authority you'll have, which means the more leeway you'll have to deal with difficult team members as you see fit.
If a coach knows he'll go on fourth-and-1, it means he has more leeway to call running plays on typical passing downs such as second-and-long or, say, third-and-4.
"The border is what we call a zone of reduced privacy expectation, which means there's more leeway to do things at the border than in other situations," she says.
Empowering your employees sometimes means giving them the leeway to try things they've never done and accept uncertain results.
