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
This, as she had been taught by revolutionary publications, was to come as the logical continuation of Russia’s village communes, once the development of this survival of prehistoric communism received free scope.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham
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