Sentence examples for time and leeway from inspiring English sources

It has support among developing countries such as India, which argues that it should be given the time and leeway that developed countries had in economic advancement.

Although defendants are often given time and leeway to make their statements, which are usually offered at sentencing but may occur during pleas or in other appearances, judges have been known to respond.

At the same time, he regards the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, as being the best in the city's history; from the moment the mayor brought Mr. Kelly back to lead the police force for a second time after 9/11, he has seemed to go out of his way to give the commissioner the benefits of doubt, time and leeway.

Officials insist that the regulations will nonetheless still give individual states plenty of time and leeway to explore preferred ways to attain emissions targets that will be assigned to each of them, including accepting cap-and-trade solutions if they so choose.

You've got the time and the leeway, so take advantage!

Even the winner may only be granted a little more leeway, time and respite.

But the current rules give employers a lot of leeway to classify workers as managerial and therefore ineligible for time-and-a-half pay.

The government has also given EDF so much leeway on time and cost that the consortium's risk is negligible, they argued.

We managed to get two or three months leeway last time and we need to create something similar again.

Fix a time, and work in a half-hour leeway, as in 9am for a 9.30am departure.

Perhaps most precious is time, the leeway to have informal conversations.