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

Shelley from the very beginning delighted in giving free scope to his imagination.

From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.

This trade was carried on in a very distant country, out of the reach of legal restraint, and where there was a free scope given to any ways or means in attaining advantage.

From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Mackenzie, Alexander

So long as the motive of gain is allowed free scope, so long will a small minority of unscrupulous persons add cheap, inferior, and sometimes dangerous ingredients to foodstuffs.

From Food Poisoning by Jordan, Edwin Oakes