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Leeway
"Leeway" in a Sentence (13 examples)
If you give Tom any leeway, he'll probably just walk all over you.
We may have just enough leeway in the negotiations to get the project approved.
You're being too strict. Give your employees some leeway.
You've been given a lot of leeway so far.
Tom should be given more leeway.
Grant him more leeway.
Due to the storm, we were granted leeway in the delivery deadline.
The ship had too much leeway and drifted off course.
I don't think we have a lot of leeway when it comes to proper formatting.
It was 1.6 [a.m.] when we got the road, and now we had 13 lost minutes to regain. But the "Condor" schedule has so much leeway that, with the diesel power, the loss was easily recouped.
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2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, →ISBN, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”, Within an expression that is not FP-strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results; […]
"There's an hourly service to Nunthorpe and by the time you add in the Whitby trains as well there is hardly any leeway on the single line between Middlesbrough and Nunthorpe so it would involve quite significant infrastructure on the existing railway."
[...] there was plenty of opportunity to modernise in the years up to 1939, but since then the Second World War and its aftermath of expenditure rigidly controlled by Government held up any progress until at last the purse-strings were unloosed five years ago. But an enormous amount of leeway needs to be made up.
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