free rein

Matthew liked to join us at the dinner table, where he had free rein.

This self-dealing creates a quagmire inside the proton, giving gluons free rein to arise, proliferate and split into short-lived quark-antiquark pairs.

The game then gives you free rein to tackle a number of objectives beyond getting to know the Anglo Saxons of England.

They’re given free rein to grow, but the expectation is that they’ll provide a return on investment.

For their first few decades, they were pretty much given free rein.

In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.

Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.

The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.

Cambodia, with its seemingly free press, is also a haven for foreign journalists.

In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.

What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.

If we can free this State of Yankees, we will accomplish more than your armies down south have.

The voice of the orator peculiarly should be free from studied effects, and responsive to motive.

Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace and among a free people.