0 a period of rest in order to increase strength or give you more time to think about what to do next:
1 a period of rest from a busy or difficult situation in order to get your energy back or give you more time to think about what to do next:
The breathing space provided by the 1950s was nevertheless sufficient.
It is through controlling our private environment that we are able to have "breathing space" from the challenges presented by interaction with other people.
I do not feel the lack of anything in this introduction except for breathing space; it is very terse and condensed.
The second theme, having breathing space in suffering, provided an opportunity to recover balance in life when intense suffering abated.
The town's claim of dominion had in effect provided them with an important breathing space and allowed them to retain land and water resources and maintain their way of life.
All in all, this gave the government some breathing space to develop a new policy package as regards incomes policy for the (semi-) public sector.
Patients oscillate between being in intense suffering and having breathing space in this suffering, which somewhat opposes the traditional picture of a continuous linear deterioration.
In our study, acquiring breathing space in suffering included being happy and harmonious and provided an opportunity to reflect on existential issues.
