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

“It does not indicate the need to cover anything up beyond not letting potential adversarial powers have carte blanche access to secure government facilities.”

From Washington Post

Trump gave carte blanche to the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and its right-wing nationalist supporters while sidelining and punishing the Palestinians.

From Los Angeles Times

President Joe Biden’s top aides, the official said of Bukele, who has high poll ratings: “What we have found is that popularity does not give you carte blanche to undermine democratic institutions.”

From Reuters

Thanks in part to the carte blanche that victim networks granted the infected Solarwinds network management software in the form of administrative privileges, the intruders could move laterally across them, even jump among organizations.

From Washington Times