"If the $270 million is approved, all political space in Nicaragua would close immediately," he said.

"That is the way to test the Government's willingness to allow us a fair amount of political space."

We are trying to work out a new political space.

He will probe to find the political space in which progress can be made.

If anything he's in virtually the same political space as the coalition.

Such actions began to create political space for slaves' freedom.

Iraqis today can look to a past that offered political and cultural space for all its ethnic groups.

Simply expressed, the 1832 act opened up a new political space.

Then people started to buy cars, to travel, and to demand a bit more political space.

His connections to the military and economic elites give him the necessary political space.