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
They are most safely lulled to sleep, and at last even conquered, by giving them free scope.
From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Where is the mortal who knows how wicked he is at heart,--how viciously he would act, if they allowed free scope to each treacherous inducement to disgrace himself by little deeds!
From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
It perhaps matters little whether the ground-work of a heroic poem be historical or entirely fictitious, if free scope be given for the excursions of fancy.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
