Word: leeway
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...from the get-go he was the perfect person for me to be working with,” on her thesis entitled “At the Critical Crossroads: Lionel Trilling and the Transformation of the Public Intellectual.”“He gave me the leeway to talk about my own opinions rather than just give dry academic research,” Atlas said.Goh agreed, describing how throughout the “drama” of his thesis, with issues such as the loss of a chapter due to computer problems, he “couldn?...
...This final number is really nice and a very generous way to kick off programming,” Riley said. “The large sum speaks to the really large potential for the programming board in the first year. The students on it will have so much creative leeway...
Other than that I have enjoyed the light family atmosphere at the ballparks.There is also some leeway in taunting the opposing players...
...responsible to buy certain products that have a certain name. We order from dairy farms and we have our corporate link through them from Ben & Jerry’s. Our syrups and baked goods come from them as well. But with sprinkles, milk, syrup, heavy cream, we have certain leeway,” she said...
...govern members? conduct. This runs from governing the use of official expense accounts and payroll to determining when a congressman or an aide must recuse himself from official action to avoid a conflict (answer: rarely). The most basic stricture of House ethics guidelines gives the ethics committee leeway to act or not act in almost any case. It requires that a congressman ?shall conduct himself at all times in a manner which shall reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.? In more extreme cases, they investigate colleagues and recommend punishments that range from barely a wrist-slap to expulsion...