Large Midwestern farms support such an approach because it gives them broader leeway in deciding when to plant, what to plant and how much to plant.

Counterintelligence agents have broad leeway in electronic eavesdropping and searches.

Mr. Gaines said that in the Government "we do not feel there is a problem with the regulations" because "they provide broad leeway."

Even so, the law still includes a macrame of loopholes: charities and "educational" groups retain broad leeway to deduct lobbying costs, for example.

But the Clinton administration is defending the restriction, arguing that government has broad leeway to attach strings to the use of federal money.

This disclaimer allows broad leeway to take real events and real people and alter them in any way the author sees fit.

The decision illustrates the continuing pressure on the Government to grant broader leeway for organized activity outside the Communist Party.

To allow law enforcement officials broad leeway to avoid cooperating with a criminal inquiry cuts against the rule of law.

The former policy was similar to the new, although recruiters routinely asked about a candidate's sexual preference and investigators had broader leeway in investigating homosexuals.

That gives software producers much broader leeway to limit their product's use.