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

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

“But I just don’t think it’s a carte blanche. I think we should do our best job so if we get surprised, we can actually explain why we missed it.”

From New York Times

“It gives them carte blanche to build wherever they want and puts no brakes on development.”

From Washington Post