Definition of "breathing-space" [breathing-space]

• Alternative spelling of breathing space. (noun)

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• "However, the end of uncertainty over his condition means that Nigeria should now have a breathing-space of stability before entering into the tense contest of presidential and parliamentary elections next year."
• "He walked up and down in his cell and let his imagination play with the idea of passing the next two years, when he would be politically excommunicated, in a kind of inner exile; his public recantation would buy him the necessary breathing-space."
• "The further he pushes it back, the more breathing-space democratic movements like Morales 'get to control their own resources."