(n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because emergency medicine is a broad-based specialty, there is much leeway in the structure of resident education.
(2) Such strategies include greater leeway for local forces to run their daily state of affairs, instead of the old strategy of directly managing these areas.
(3) The Commons has already given the Treasury leeway to draw down an extra £10bn to give the IMF, but anything further would require a fresh vote in the Commons – and be likely to prompt a backbench Tory rebellion.
(4) In the interview, he similarly suggested he was willing to give the president leeway within Congress’ rights to reject nominees and control the White House’s purse.
(5) You're meant to be the geneticist, so give a little leeway to the religious fundamentalists.
(6) Civil libertarians contend that legal restrictions preventing the government from intentionally targeting an American using surveillance tools for uncovering foreign intelligence information are nullified if the government can collect vast swaths of data and maintain unrestricted leeway to search through it.
(7) Duncan Smith has been given the political leeway to make the reforms after the annual child poverty statistics, published by government last week, did not show the widely predicted rise .
(8) The latest signs that France could be given some leeway came as the yen fell to its lowest level against the dollar for two years as the government of recession-hit Japan was formally sworn in.
(9) Cameron and Osborne face a very different future, with less leeway.
(10) There are signs already in recent Strasbourg judgments of greater explicit recognition being granted to what is termed the "margin of appreciation" – the leeway granted to national jurisdictions to interpret cases according to their own legal traditions.
(11) A week ago, Mr Tsipras found little leeway during a seven-hour meeting with Angela Merkel in Berlin.
(12) Sources familiar with the negotiations said a likely deal would give the chancellor more leeway on the decision to limit the subsidies that can be charged to energy customers' bills, via an existing power called the levy control framework (LCF) , with a fresh cap currently being negotiated to begin in 2015.
(13) Subjects varied greatly in how much leeway they would give surrogates to override their advance directives: "no leeway" (39%), "a little leeway" (19%), "a lot of leeway" (11%), and "complete leeway" (31%).
(14) The way Tesco bills suppliers means there is "quite a lot of leeway" to move money around, says another industry source.
(15) Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has argued against allowing more leeway before reaching budget targets set by Brussels, seemingly against the advice of the OECD.
(16) The constituent parts of that manifesto should include subsidiarity, a looser arrangement for the eurozone giving deficit laden countries greater leeway, a clearer energy policy, greater free trade and more cooperation in defence.
(17) With a bit more fiscal leeway, Syriza argues it could raise public sector salaries, slow the pace of job cuts and raise pensions, helping to boost consumer demand and rekindle economic growth.
(18) The attachment to the tarsus of the advanced aponeurosis 2 to 3 mm from the ciliary border gives the surgeon a leeway of approximately 7 to 8 mm to recess in the event of an overcorrection.
(19) "He's giving the US a leeway on the legality of drone strikes, he is looking for a safe passage out."
(20) She understands that news media have certain leeway in a presidential campaign, but outright lying about her in this way exceeds all bounds of appropriate news reporting and human decency.” Harder’s not-quite-four-year-old Beverly Hills firm, Harder Mirell & Abrams LLP, is perhaps best known for representing Hulk Hogan in the lawsuit that eventually bankrupted Gawker Media , which was sold at auction to media company Univision earlier in August.
Margin
Definition:
(n.) A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.
(n.) Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered in writing or printing.
(n.) The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article.
(n.) Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty.
(n.) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc.
(v. t.) To furnish with a margin.
(v. t.) To enter in the margin of a page.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood pressure control was marginally improved during the study and it is thought possible that better patient compliance might explain this.
(2) Nine of the 12 long-term survivors showed lymph node metastasis and six of the 12 revealed cancer cells at the surgical margins.
(3) Fusiform cells were most concentrated along the lateral margin of the subnucleus interpolaris.
(4) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(5) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(6) Computed tomography (CT) is the most sensitive radiologic study for detecting these tumors, which usually are small, round, sharply marginated, and of homogeneous soft tissue density.
(7) Although patients treated with postoperative radiation therapy showed significantly extended survival rates as compared to those receiving surgical resection alone, the glioblastoma recurred within a 2cm margin of the primary site in more than 90% of the patients and conventional external radiation therapy with a doses of 50-60 Gy did not result in local cure.
(8) Such margins would be enough to put the first female president in the White House, but Democrats are guarding against complacency.
(9) When collateral marginal vessels were eliminated, adjacent arterial blood flow decreased to control levels and venous flow virtually stopped.
(10) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
(11) The ruffles of the sub-marginal cells showed different characteristics, being longer and not propagated successively as were the marginal ruffles.
(12) Based on review examination of 224 patients 5 years after their ankle fractures, the authors demonstrate a significant worsening of prognosis with fractures of the anterior or posterior tibial margin.
(13) Chloroquine concentrations were marginally but significantly higher in venous whole blood.
(14) Sialomucin was markedly increased in 17.0 percent of proximal resection margins and 17.3 percent in distal resection margins.
(15) The combined prevention of caries was conductive to improved treatment quality which was accounted for by a 1.5 to 2-fold reduction in the rate of disorders in marginal contact with filling material and secondary caries.
(16) The dietary information on children with diarrhea came from focus groups with mothers in 3 marginal urban communities, 3 rural indigenous communities, and 4 rural Ladino communities.
(17) After 21 days, supragingival and marginal plaque was collected from each subject and assayed for total cultivable microbiota, total facultative anaerobes, facultative Streptococci, Actinomyces, Fusobacterium, Veillonella and Capnocytophaga.
(18) Even when combined with a peripheral-acting BZD, such as Ro5-4608, which displayed only marginal antiproliferative activity against human melanoma cells when applied alone, growth suppression of the combination of this peripheral-type BZD with all three types of IFNs was more than additive.
(19) Suede sang about life on the margins, in council homes.
(20) The most important variable for anastomotic recurrence was mucin histochemical changes at the resection margins according to the Wald statistic value.