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

It is there that he has given free scope to his exquisite conception, intended to represent in the maternal, and therefore universally felt affection, the divine spirit and parental tenderness of the gospel.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

The whole frame is so held that every vital organ has free scope and play-room, and their healthier and more vigorous action is directly encouraged.

From How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by Blaikie, William Garden