Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million-member denomination has tolerated more progressive behavior than most Protestant groups; some liberal dioceses have held same-sex marriages and ordained gay clergy. Yet official church doctrine has always opposed such practices. Now a hot debate is erupting over a proposed "pastoral teaching" that would give liberationists more leeway than ever before...
Sympathetic legislators have introduced amendments that would give property owners more leeway in encroaching on animals' habitats. The House has trimmed an Administration request for increased funding that would have made it easier for the Interior Department to enforce the act. At the same time, some of its provisions have been successfully challenged in court...
Rudenstine's decision to delay was in line with the report approved by the Faculty in 1993 which allowed the President leeway to postpone the decision...
...would give students more leeway while stillspecifying things they should know," says Alex J.Kim '96, a history and science concentrator."Sometimes in an area of the core, you'rehard-pressed to find something you're reallyinterested...
...modest increase in funding for grants wouldallow the council more leeway in dispensing money,says Jay J. Kim '95, chair of the financecommittee and a Crimson editor...