free hand
Example Sentences
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A new chairman is imposed on a department with a free hand to make whatever appointments he thinks necessary to restore the department to health.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
"So I had a free hand to launch reforms, as long as Spain's unity was not endangered."
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025
In the prior regime, Sheridan had been given a free hand creatively and on spending, which Ellison and his new executive team had reportedly signaled might not continue in the same way.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025
The commission must approve exception appointments at the most senior grade, but below this level departments have a free hand to recruit.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024
Her expression of intense, agonizing curiosity said the rest, as did the excited way she pranced in place and the soundless giggles that she carefully muffled with her free hand.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
