Naturally, women have in this direction developed further than men, for they had more leeway to make up.
Both in England and in the United States women have not had much more than a generation to make up the leewayof sixty centuries.
The cows had been contracted for by the head, while the steers went on their estimated weight in dressed beef, the contract calling for a million pounds with a ten per cent leeway over that amount.
We took a rope from the coupling pole of the wagon and loosely noosed it over the crutch, which allowedleeway in turning, but prevented the hub from slipping off the support on a short turn to the left.
We were on the starboard tack at the time, making leeway off shore.
The wind had come out of the south-west, and our leeway was setting us down upon the land.
So, instead of making speed through the water toward deep sea, I hove the Elsinore to on the starboard tack with no more than leeway driftage to the west and south.
He heaves-to on the port tack until the leeward drift brings the land into perilous proximity, then wears ship and heaves-to on the port tack and makes leeway off shore.
The leeway was extraordinarily great--the boat going sideways almost as fast as she went ahead; but that leeway saved her from going over.
He knew that hove-to as she was the destroyer was going to be driven closer in, and with a steep-to shore he could allow her to accept the leeway for some time.
I should think you might have a little leeway in the matter of sitting up late.
I'll have plenty of leeway before long," laughed Joe.
Therefore I petition your Grace to favor this, so that they may increase in service to his Majesty, and so that I may have more leeway in rewarding them and encouraging them to [exert themselves] in his service.
The business man should figure what percentage of his cash receipts is profit, and this percentage should be deducted every month, less a little leeway to make the matter easier.
When you are buying single articles that are not fixed charges you have a little more leeway in the matter of price than when you are buying things that come under the head of fixed charges.
The postal regulations are sufficiently broad to allow a generous leeway in the size and shape of communications that may be sent by mail, and as a result, a new field of salesmanship has been opened by the postal card.
For business correspondence, custom allows but littleleeway in the choice of paper.
Slosson's relying on making up their leeway for them in the boom.
But always in such cases he had ultimately made up the leeway and gained on the reach.
No one said anything as the yacht began to climb the next wave, but "Drifting on Curacao Reef" was written plain on every face; the angling slant of our quickly-quenched wake told only too plainly of the fearful leeway we were making.
There was the usual delay owing to a freight wreck, and my two hours of leeway had shrunken to a scant sixty minutes by the time I had alighted at the little flag station of Crown Ferry.
When unfolded and hung over the side, they presented a surface of resistance to the water much greater than that of an ordinary boat's keel, so that very little leeway indeed was made.
This leeway is less easy to make up than that of mechanical contrivance, and much time will no doubt elapse before every one is educated up to the proper appreciation and use of sanitary arrangements.
Why, man alive, you wouldn't want me to lose this breeze with such a lot of leeway as we have to make up?
I wouldn't be surprised to find that we were far below `the Forties,' with all that drift and leeway we've had!
Although the secretary was concerned with the possible reaction of the civil rights groups were integration not achieved in the first sixty days, he was determined to give local commanders some leeway in carrying out his order.
These committees exercised considerable leeway in selecting candidates to fill their state's annual NROTC quota, and their decisions were final.
There could be no accident comparable in disaster to his failure to put the miles behind him swiftly enough to insure him the few minutes leeway he asked for in the den.
She was not unaware of a reason for this, in that Bradley had told her of old Follett's death, and even a "bad girl" like Jennie must be allowed some leeway for grief.
He was putting distance between himself and them, and five minutes' leeway would be enough for him.
He has therefore a certain leeway in which he can be sure of doing no harm, and may accomplish good, if he confines his propaganda to simple, factual and plainly honest statements on these subjects.
They did not understand that no war is the last war, that leeway must be left for propaganda to be effective again.
Apparently she was, but whether the leeway counter-balanced the distance made good, or whether the boat was actually losing on each tack remained at present an insolvable problem.
For another ten minutes it blew hard, but, thanks to the improvised sea-anchor, the boat was making very little leeway and riding head to wind.
