Examples of carte blanche

• A law passed in 1991 gave the president carte blanche in the appointment of the commander-in-chief and the removal of top officers.

• Nevertheless, an institutional policy that simply gives a surrogate carte blanche to decline measures that are intended only to prevent patient suffering seems deeply flawed.

• Yet the prerogative to articulate individual goals of treatment does not give the patient carte blanche.

• The contributors, both established and emerging international scholars in the field, have been given carte blanche to choose which live performance they will analyse.

• They were not acting as if they had carte blanche for radical reform because capitalists had suffered a massive loss of power.

• If physicalism and this strong causal closure principle are accepted, then supernatural interventions are ruled out tout court, while rejecting physicalism gives miracles metaphysical carte blanche.

• We have to make it abundantly clear that we are not giving anybody carte blanche.

• We need to consider whether it is acceptable that the alcohol industry can advertise in such a carte blanche fashion.