elbowroom
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By war's end, father Jay was moving aside to give Harsen plenty of elbowroom, and Harsen's ideas were to expand.
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There is ever less elbowroom for the individual; submissive cooperation with increasingly remote and mysterious forces has become the order of the day.
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With all its new elbowroom, the company danced with new grace and exuberance.
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Cast a Giant Shadow, another exercise in movie biography, may be filed as a case of mistaken identity: any resemblance to persons living or dead is sacrificed to make elbowroom for Hero Kirk Douglas.
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Marshall's nationalism rescued American democracy from the vaguer horizons to which Jefferson's cosmopolitanism beckoned, and gave to it a secure abode with plenty of elbowroom.
From John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court by Corwin, Edward Samuel