(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.
Tolerance
Definition:
(n.) The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.
(n.) The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration.
(n.) The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal.
Example Sentences:
(1) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(2) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(3) This treatment is usually well tolerated but not devoid of systemic effects.
(4) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
(5) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
(6) Although temazepam was effective for maintaining sleep with short-term use, there was rapid development of tolerance for this effect with intermediate-term use.
(7) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
(8) There were no biochemical or haematological abnormalities caused by prazosin but on continued therapy 16 patients developed tolerance to its effect.
(9) Characerization of further parameters such as relative susceptibility to tolerance induction and relative degree of specificity was not possible with the use of KLH as the antigen.
(10) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
(11) Efficacy and tolerability of perorally administered desmopressin were evaluated in 12 adult patients suffering from central diabetes insipidus.
(12) This suggests that both blood transfusion and allograft are required for IL2 suppression and that this suppression may be related to the heart tolerance.
(13) At present, ACE inhibitors are preferred because they are usually better tolerated than conventional vasodilators and are clinically more effective.
(14) Changes in pain tolerance after administration of differently labelled placebos were studied by measuring the reaction time after a cold stimulus.
(15) TK1 showed the most restricted substrate specificity but tolerated 3'-modifications of the sugar ring and some 5-substitutions of the pyrimidine ring.
(16) Provided that adequate reflection is given and the appropriate moment chosen, it is well tolerated and provides all the necessary information.
(17) After large bowel removal, there was impaired glucose tolerance and attenuated plasma insulin secretion.
(18) Cardiac pump function is not affected, even in patients with ventricular dysfunction or heart failure, in whom chronic oral administration of the drug is well tolerated.
(19) These agents have been well-tolerated and generally produce a high incidence of sustained improvements in neutrophil counts and marrow morphology, although hemoglobin and platelet counts have generally not been altered.
(20) The above treatment is tolerated well and no serious side effects have been observed.