carte blanche

Example Sentences

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Recently, she was given carte blanche to plan a proposal for a client during his upcoming trip to Italy.

From Washington Post

The NLRB's Democratic majority said those rulings were misguided and "granted employers carte blanche to offer employees severance agreements that include unlawful provisions."

From Reuters

"It's offensive that government ministers are insisting NHS workers take another savage pay cut while their big City banker friends are given carte blanche to make billions," she said.

From BBC

Beyond the humanitarian impact, Turkey's incursion risks widening the conflict by giving carte blanche to regional rival Iran to step up intelligence operations inside Iraq and take its own military action, Kurdish officials say.

From Reuters

Stanovaya argued that Gerasimov could have asked for “carte blanche in the heat of verbal battles against the background of some very tense discussions.”

From Seattle Times