carte blanche

Example Sentences

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Triggering the administration’s nuclear response on Friday was Anthropic’s high-handed refusal to give the Defense Department carte blanche to use its technology as it sees fit.

From The Wall Street Journal

One might argue that Fennell’s stunning images and the familiar emotions they convey are a happy accident, the result of millions of dollars and a director given carte blanche to play as she sees fit.

From Salon

The decades-old agreement, updated in 2004, already essentially gives Washington carte blanche to ramp up its troop deployments provided it informs the authorities in Denmark and Greenland in advance.

From Barron's

He has given the military carte blanche to manage the border conflict as it sees fit.

From BBC

"The fact that staff are also personal account holders doesn't give the bank carte blanche to do what it wants," he told the newspaper, which first reported the story.

From BBC