The phrase "as it likes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is done according to one's preference or desire.
Example: "The cat roams around the house as it likes, finding the coziest spots to nap."
Alternatives: "as it pleases" or "as it wishes".
And if the line is drawn by the religious association, the religious association is being granted the power to deprive as many of its employees as it likes of the constitutional protections supposedly afforded to every citizen.
Allow a laboratory mouse to run as much as it likes, and its brainpower improves.
He assumes that the United States has a divine right to behave as it likes, regardless of its previous commitments.
That raucous-as-a-circus organization has leaped beyond the rasslin' ring and landed smack -- or smack-mouth, as it likes to describe its style -- into football.
That is, the Knight jumps over a string of as many pieces of its own color as it likes, followed by jumping over a string of as many pieces of the other color as it can manage.
The AP can go ahead and delay its news as much as it likes.
Come monsoon time, "it can still play with its rhythm and it can dance as it likes".
The Federal Reserve can print as much money as it likes, and it has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to create an economic boom when it wants to.
Disney can wish upon as many stars as it likes, but there is no way that its boss, Michael Eisner, is going to return to his past glories.
Thus management can dig as deep as it likes into the assessment's "pedigree" to test its quality.
Don't worry – it is happy to pay excess baggage on those cases of Aldi mackerel fillets in tomato sauce, or, as it likes to think of them, the tools of its trade.
