Sentence examples for been given licence from inspiring English sources
"They think it's terribly serious as I used the Schubert quintet on a loop earlier on, and they didn't feel they'd been given licence to laugh".
One Australian media-watcher said that all the papers' right-leaning columnists have been given licence to bang the war drums while belittling opponents.
He has been given licence to set up a bohemian quarter in some old workshops in Battersea, south London, with a painting studio, a "gin and tonic terrace" and Testbed, an arts space "with no agenda".
With James McCarthy and Gareth Barry forming a reliable shield behind him, Barkley has been given licence by the Everton manager to attempt his twists, runs and incisive passes deep in opposition territory.
Offensive co-ordinator Adam Gase, promoted from quarterbacks coach in the offseason, is an aggressive play-caller by nature, but he has also been given licence by Fox to make those big calls.
Instead local Liberal Democrats have been given licence to support independent candidates who come forward for the November polls, and to only stand a candidate themselves if no one else suitable comes forward.
It rejected 90% of these, then turned its attention to 10,000 projects that had already been given licences, finding that 92% were failing in some way to comply with their conditions.Despite all the stumbles and setbacks, Colombia is getting somewhere in its drive to exploit its mineral reserves.
Whereas Ansar al-Sharia has vanished, at least for the time being, two other powerful Islamist outfits in Benghazi, the February 17th Martyrs group and another one called Rafala al-Sahati, have been given licences to operate under new commanders answerable to the national army.
A total of 136 stores have been given licences to sell marijuana.
The US government has now lifted the ban and a number of ferry companies say they have been given licences.
A total of 136 stores, mostly in Denver, have so far been given licences to sell marijuana with more permits pending.
