Sentence examples for leeway on the from inspiring English sources

Baseball grants leeway on the distance of fences from home plate.

Cone would not be given as much leeway on the Mets.

That way I have a little leeway on the second day or the third day or whenever it is.

"There is a lot of leeway on the redesign and restructuring of the rest of the house," Ms. Conway said.

And in general, Democrats, no matter what their position, get more leeway on the issue than Republicans.

It is implicated in pension-accounting fiddles, because it has allowed firms far too much leeway on the assumptions they set.

His dilemma will be to decide whether to pare it back even more dramatically than Mr Hester has and to focus almost exclusively on retail banking in Britain or to try to remain an internationally diversified universal bank.Mr McEwan may not have much leeway on this choice, however, given the pressure from his largest shareholder to shrink.

The central banks that use such an approach usually have some leeway on this.

BANK REGULATORS TO ALLOW LEEWAY ON LIQUIDITY RULE The oversight panel of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said the rule did not mean banks would never be allowed to dip below required levels, Susanne Craig reports.

A few current members of the euro area were allowed plenty of leeway on some of the Maastricht criteria.

[C10.] Utilities Seek Leeway on Bills Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison, the two largest utilities in California, said they had millions of dollars owed to power generators due today but warned they might not have enough cash to pay them.