free scope

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Giving the natural risk-takers such a free scope led soon to embedding an admiration for risk-taking in American culture.

From Time • Mar. 28, 2015

After attempts at forced collectivization, which contributed to Poland's near revolt in 1956, the regime has allowed relatively free scope to the farmers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The canals were filled up and levelled, so as to give free scope for the movements of the cavalry and artillery.

From Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 by Vide, V. V.

Their knowledge of plant structure was exceedingly limited and their microscopes were so imperfect that imagination had free scope.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John

There was no spirit of propaganda in the naturalistic religion of the pagan king; he gave his wife a free scope, but refused to adopt the doctrine she advocated.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann