Sentence examples for on the leeway from inspiring English sources

"You are betting on the ability of the Greek politicians to form an effective coalition government, and making a judgment on the leeway there is to renegotiate their program.

When we feel threatened by enemies and/or criminals, we have little problem striking a moral balance on the leeway granted to the police and the military in these areas.

Mr President, after 11 September, we succeeded in cutting back on the leeway which terrorists had, by taking numerous and effective European measures.

But most of the leeway, they feel, is on the other side.

Labour would not need to spend the cash on new investment; the leeway could be used to soften cuts to day-to-day spending.

Correction: November 15 , 2003 Saturday A front-page article on Wednesday about the leeway that companies have in financing their pension funds referred incompletely to the response by CNF Inc., a freight and logistics company, to a lawsuit filed by a group of retirees who had worked for the company and for Consolidated Freightways, a division that was spun off.

The leeway on European junk bonds was even higher.

Global warming didn't cause the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Miyagi coast, but global warming daily is shrinking the leeway on which civilisation everywhere depends.

But for the case against Awlaki, hinted at in a Justice Department "white paper" summarizing it that leaked last year, the administration leaned significantly on the broad leeway for counter-terrorism the AUMF established.

He said that low-cost carriers had fare sales that ended earlier this week on many routes, giving United the leeway to introduce its fares.

But this is his first taste of life outside the French league and, on the basis that leeway has to be given for adjustment even to players who cost £32m, it has been promising.