The phrase "a license to commit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is given permission or feels justified to engage in certain actions, often with negative connotations.
Example: "The new policy seemed to give employees a license to commit unethical behavior without fear of repercussions."
Alternatives: "permission to act" or "authorization to engage".
Will it be silly Zillah, who uses marital abandonment as a license to commit bigamy?
Otherwise Saudi Arabia will interpret American passivity as a license to commit further human rights abuses without fear of punishment.
"When you demonize a population, some people take that as a license to commit violence," said Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at SPLC, which tracks hate crimes.
One of Bulger's boyhood acquaintances was an F.B.I. agent named John Connolly, who in the 1970's struck a devil's deal with the two crooks; in exchange for information about the Italian mob, these crime lords were given a license to commit any crime "short of murder," including extortion, assault, drug dealing and loan sharking.
The right to make such a decision regarding the life of one's child is a tragic necessity at best, a license to commit murder at worst.
And Stanisic made sure "they had everything that they needed, including a license to clear the land of unwanted people, a license to commit murder". Former members of the State Security Service dispute those allegations.
The messianism of the settlers, like the messianism of Hamas, is the triumph of expediency: people who believe that God has given them a mission have granted themselves license to commit terrible sins.
It also makes its point that war is waged mostly by men who, international laws notwithstanding, assume they have license to commit casual atrocities.
Zenran had become embroiled in a dispute with Shinran's followers in the Kantō region over provocative beliefs and behaviour, such as the assertion by some of license to commit wrongdoings.
License to commit such crimes has not yet been granted to those individuals whose respect for American law and the traditional bonds of parent and child have been undermined by their fanatical hatred of Fidel Castro.
