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carte blanche
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  • His habitual absence emboldened the more brutal prison officials and gave them carte blanche to do whatever they wanted.†  (source)
  • He's been given carte blanche on this mission.†  (source)
  • But Stanton has just given Baker carte blanche to move in and take over the entire investigation.†  (source)
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  • How you act is none of my concern, but you do not have carte blanche.†  (source)
  • To put our suspicions and true understanding of the matter into words—he had probably listened to Herr Settembrini for one purpose only: to be given carte blanche by his conscience, a license it had been unwilling to grant him at first.†  (source)
  • They've taken the Van Alstyne place at Roslyn, and I've got CARTE BLANCHE to bring my friends down there—the more the merrier.†  (source)
  • I only ask you to give me carte blanche.†  (source)
  • You have carte blanche.†  (source)
  • I give you carte blanche then; you can even be impertinent if you like; I shall let it pass and horribly spoil you.†  (source)
  • If I were Brooke, I would choke the 'Trumpet' at once by getting Garth to make a new valuation of the farms, and giving him carte blanche about gates and repairs: that's my view of the political situation," said the Rector, broadening himself by sticking his thumbs in his armholes, and laughing towards Mr. Brooke.†  (source)
  • I had previously taken a journey to Sto purchase some new furniture: my cousins having given me CARTE BLANCHE to effect what alterations I pleased, and a sum having been set aside for that purpose.†  (source)
  • "And this carte blanche," said d'Artagnan, "this carte blanche, does it remain in her hands?"†  (source)
  • Both were of course too prudent to give up the fifteen hundred a year which was brought in by the second seat (at this period filled by Mr. Quadroon, with carte blanche on the Slave question); indeed the family estate was much embarrassed, and the income drawn from the borough was of great use to the house of Queen's Crawley.†  (source)
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