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

While we were giving free scope to our surprise at all we saw, we were greatly annoyed in our contemplations by the natives, who offered us bouquets of flowers, wreaths, and fruit.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

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

Turning our thoughts at such times with greater energy and perseverance inward, our imagination has free scope, and countless images appear before our mind's eye which are not subject to the laws of real life.

From Modern Magic by Vere, Maximilian Schele de