What's the difference between headroom and headway?

Headroom


Definition:

  • (n.) See Headway, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The government will be borrowing heavily over the next few years, so it’s a shame that they couldn’t use more of the fiscal headroom to encourage investment through measures such as raising the annual investment allowance, which could deliver productivity increases sooner.” Autumn Statement 2016: Most gains from post-2015 changes go to richest half of UK - live Read more Digital entrepreneur and investor Martin Leuw, who was CEO of IRIS Software for 10 years and now runs business accelerator Growth4Good , said: “ I can see how a reduction in corporation tax makes the UK an attractive place for inward investment.
  • (2) He added that the cost cutting undertaken in the past year by ITV provided a "financial platform, and headroom, to deliver change", with tranformation now the priority, rather than more savings – and increased investment likely in some areas.
  • (3) The US government runs out of borrowing headroom in under nine days time, and investors are now getting more edgy about what happens at one minute to midnight on October 17th .
  • (4) With 10-year gilt yields at a record low 1.5%, the markets are sending a clear signal that there is substantially more headroom for counter-cyclical fiscal stimulus.
  • (5) That legislation, or a version of it, could work its way into a broad agreement between the sides, although Republicans have rejected the idea of adding so much headroom.
  • (6) The company said it had headroom of about £1bn to make acquisitions.
  • (7) That has given us a financial platform, and headroom, to deliver change.
  • (8) Hunt said the commonwealth had already purchased 1,165 gigalitres of water, leaving 335 gigalitres of “headroom” before the new limit would be reached, but the government wanted to focus on improving farm water efficiency.
  • (9) It’s then up to the party or any government to look at that headroom and spending available, and look at where and how to spend it.” According to the Department for Work and Pensions , postponing an increase in the state retirement age from 66 to 67 would cost £6bn over eight years in Scotland and £74bn for the UK as a whole.
  • (10) Jill Rutter, the programme director of the Institute for Government, said: “To have a chancellor who is able to resist the temptation to spend every pound of fiscal headroom instantly is, in current circumstances given future uncertainties, a welcome development.
  • (11) True, in parts they could stretch up to 3ft 11in (119cm) – which is just about enough headroom for an Ewok.
  • (12) There is therefore more than enough headroom without our announced savings to cover the net cost of the higher education package,” he said.
  • (13) #gdndatamgmt September 10, 2014 Roger Tatoud (@B3EXECS) "data protectionism" from system managers and system providers is also a major obstacle to data collection, sharing and use #gdndatamgmt September 10, 2014 Chris King (@NorthernWrites) How do we create more headroom for change at board level?
  • (14) "That has given us a financial platform, and headroom, to deliver change.
  • (15) But don't expect to sit up in bed – the headroom doesn't allow for such luxuries.
  • (16) Thomas Cook feels it needs more headroom to be prudent," she said.
  • (17) There is headroom for further lending, Carney replies, but not infinite room, as there are dangers in offering such high loan-to-value loans.
  • (18) Buhlmann, speaking to MediaGuardian.co.uk, said that the £200m-plus deal did not mark a break in that strategy and that the company had plenty of headroom for further acquistions.
  • (19) Labor has revealed that its higher education policy would cost the budget nearly $14bn over the next decade, arguing there was “more than enough headroom” within its already announced savings measures to offset the spending.
  • (20) "What's strange about the period under scrutiny is they reported a massive profit warning and I know the trading team were encouraged to clear the decks to give the new chief executive some headroom, so they were being prudent and conservative in their guidance.

Headway


Definition:

  • (n.) The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.
  • (n.) Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A recent UN study ranked Brazil 116th out of 143 countries in terms of the proportion of women in the national legislature and efforts to remedy this with a quota system – such as those adopted by neighbouring Argentina and Bolivia – have made little headway, despite Suplicy's heavy campaigning.
  • (2) On the basis of their review, the authors conclude that, generally speaking, suicide prediction research has made little headway over the past 25 years.
  • (3) Although the conservative-dominated coalition has made headway in purging the state sector since it assumed power in June 2012, sceptical attitudes have been hard to erase.
  • (4) That there is now genuine competition among them for the best talent, that the internet and the international viewing audience now mean programme makers can circumvent traditional channels and commissioners if they feel they're making no headway for them.
  • (5) Its findings – including evidence that the Republican nominee is making dramatic headway with female voters, young people and those in the heartlands of the mid-west – appear to confirm that Obama's listless performance at the debate, and by contrast Romney's strong showing, has translated into a powerful political force.
  • (6) There has been an effective ban on federal funding related to gun violence prevention research since 1996, when Congress put language in its Appropriations Bill stipulating: “None of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.” This hamstrings our national health protectors, CDC and the National Institutes of Health, from getting the science necessary to make headway.
  • (7) Those in Bangladesh who demanded government intervention in one of the country's few economic success stories made little headway when dozens of garment factory owners sat in parliament and powerful industry bodies had the ear of policymakers.
  • (8) Qatar’s sports minister, Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser al-Ali, on Tuesday told Associated Press that it was making headway.
  • (9) The National Farmers Union is taking legal advice to try to get compensation for the region's farmers but regional director Melanie Squires said they were having a "torrid time" making any headway with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
  • (10) Meanwhile the government appears to be making little headway in negotiations with the crossbench over the $5.5bn it wants to cut from family tax benefit B, which is paid to single parents and single income families earning up to $150,000, to fund its $3.5bn childcare plan.
  • (11) Britain believes that the twin-track approach to dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions – negotiations and sanctions – is failing to make much headway, and Cameron expects to receive support for tightening sanctions.
  • (12) The UK has made headway in some respects on gender equality at work, according to separate research published on Monday that shows the country rising up a “women in work” league table .
  • (13) Though deadlocked at home, Barack Obama impressed both sides of British politics and in 2009 entered the hostile atmosphere of the Kremlin to befriend the then-president Dmitry Medvedev and make headway on a difficult disarmament treaty.
  • (14) Activists fear that as western troops head home, taking with them both money and the attention of the voting public back home, conservatives are making headway in undermining rights they see as a foreign imposition.
  • (15) Attempts by doctors to change the public conversation made little headway, and those who continued to prescribe opiates to addicts as part of treatment programs were jailed .
  • (16) While biomedical research continues to make headway in uncovering factors related to the disease, the causes, and therefore, the treatment remain just beyond our reach.
  • (17) EADS on the other hand has struggled to make as much headway in the US defence market, and analysts say the Americans may downgrade BAE's SSA if it looks as if France may interfere.
  • (18) Hopes of headway being made late Wednesday when the two party leaders met with prime minister Antonis Samaras for talks aimed at finally forging some consensus fell on stony ground.
  • (19) Others, including the Dutch finance minister, Jeroen Dijsselbloem – who chairs the Eurogroup of euro area finance ministers – continued to blame the lack of headway on Athens.
  • (20) Their leader had tried this line of the attack the previous week and made little headway.