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
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Free institutions do not make great men, but they allow those endowed by nature with extraordinary gifts free scope for action.
From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler
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
Both this and my life will be sent you to peruse and approve or alter before publication, and I need not say that you will have free scope to expunge all you disapprove of.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas