free hand

The commission must approve exception appointments at the most senior grade, but below this level departments have a free hand to recruit.

Yoakam cupped his free hand around the bottom of the phone to help amplify the sound.

But we do know that the court's right-wing majority believes that virtually nothing he does could possibly be criminal, so he's pretty much got a free hand.

Specifics like an official invitation to join Nato and a free hand in using the long-range missiles supplied by the UK and France.

The AI companies want the public to give them a free hand despite an obvious conflict of interest — profit-making companies should not be trusted to make decisions that might impede their profit-making prospects.