Sentence examples for leeway under from inspiring English sources

The umpire, Eva Asderaki of Greece, had leeway under the rules to judge whether Williams had spoken the two syllables with the intent of disturbing her opponent.

As usual, the only graphic coverage will be the in-house television cameras that have limited leeway under leadership rules intended to display civics.

That was a contrast with predecessors such as Kenneth Starr, who investigated President Bill Clinton and had broad leeway under the now-expired independent counsel statute.

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.

In May, a federal judge, acknowledging that the case was Dickensian but saying that he had no leeway under the law, sentenced Young to serve a minimum of 15 years in federal prison.

From his other vantage point -- his country leads a group of 38 African nations seeking more leeway under the trade group's intellectual property agreement -- Mr. Chidyausiku said: "This is quite an emotional issue for African countries.

It is not clear, however, how much leeway exists under the sequester rules, which require that cuts should be made on an across-the-board basis.

"We can do pretty much what we have to do without, you know, the secretary has tremendous leeway in the -- under the Obama plans". "We can pretty much do whatever we have to do just the way it is," the president added.

Indeed, we understand that authors should be allowed leeway for interpretation under this nebulous heading.

For more than fifty years, starting with the New Deal, the Supreme Court gave Congress considerable leeway to pass laws, under the authority granted to it by the Constitution to regulate interstate commerce.

They said the actions of the judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson, had made it more difficult for Microsoft to suggest that the computer industry ought to be given more leeway than traditional businesses under antitrust law.