carte-blanche

The credo quickly became a carte-blanche for mass murder.

Never Say Die Thomas Meaney 2011

By the end of September 2001, as the invasion of Afghanistan was being prepared, it was already a carte-blanche world and, as it happened, pilotless surveillance drones were there, lurking in the shadows, waiting for a moment like this, yearning you might say to be weaponised.

America's permanent robot war | Tom Engelhardt 2011

There may be some who mistake Obama's gesture to the Mahatma as either a disrespect to America or as a carte-blanche endorsement of Indianness.

Vamsee Juluri: Obama's Mahatma Moment Vamsee Juluri 2010

There may be some who mistake Obama's gesture to the Mahatma as either a disrespect to America or as a carte-blanche endorsement of Indianness.

Vamsee Juluri: Obama's Mahatma Moment Vamsee Juluri 2010

There may be some who mistake Obama's gesture to the Mahatma as either a disrespect to America or as a carte-blanche endorsement of Indianness.

Vamsee Juluri: Obama's Mahatma Moment Vamsee Juluri 2010

There may be some who mistake Obama's gesture to the Mahatma as either a disrespect to America or as a carte-blanche endorsement of Indianness.

Vamsee Juluri: Obama's Mahatma Moment Vamsee Juluri 2010

Nevertheless, what exactly gave feminism carte-blanche to believe that it was representative of all women?

Guilty pleasures. « A Bird’s Nest 2007

To say that neither the Federal Reserve, nor the artificial adjustment of interest rates, nor corporate welfare, nor the bankrupt social security system, nor income tax, nor rule by lobby groups, nor the carte-blanche printing of fiat money -- to say that none of these are primarily responsible for our current economic crisis but that the free market is is worse than incorrect: it's a kind of lunacy.

Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

If you fear Obama's intentions, then surely you think laws giving the president carte-blanche is a bad idea, and that wiretapping, spying on protesters etc. have the potential to be used against conservatives as well as liberals and that is why your constitution should be protected regardless of your political hue.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

One does wonders if the choice of Frum and his carte-blanche selection of appropriate experts is a sop to those critics of the CBC who got their underwear in a furious knot about Heather Mallick's opinion column on Sarah Palin.

CBC tweaks its journalistic "balance". 2008