breathing room

Police were giving them “a little breathing room,” according to Bratton.

But now there are so many good series on so many different channels that breathing room has become an impossible luxury.

More breathing room between books, however, gives writers more time to infuse their series with something extra.

Their patrolling, their bravery, their sacrifice gave the Afghans breathing room to take charge of their own affairs.

This gave Obama more breathing room for his clear preference for a “diplomatic” solution.

Indifferent at first, then arrogant, and at last insufferably insolent, she scarcely gave him breathing room in his own home.

The entrapped wanderer grows fierce and restless, and pants for breathing-room.

The air of that sterile islet is breathed by that incomprehensible man who lately felt that he had not breathing room in Europe.

No; I hold, myself, that he will give more breathing room to France, as circumstances admit of it.

But now there is breathing room, for many are in the fields.