Sentence examples for given a blank check from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama has also vowed that the Afghan government will no longer be given a "blank check".

Somehow, in the name of solving the financial crisis, the F.D.I.C. has seemingly been given a blank check, with virtually no oversight by Congress.

Given a blank check to buy a painting at auction, he spends an exorbitant amount on what appears to be a fake Manet.

Then Archbishop André Vingt-Trois of Paris said that just because the telethon provided money for worthwhile projects to fight muscular dystrophy, it should not be given "a blank check".

Mrs. Bachmann misrepresented the debt ceiling debate when she complained that Congress had given a "blank check" to President Obama by agreeing to raise the debt ceiling — even though it had to be raised to pay for the bills that Congress had already approved, not for future spending.

The national security state has given a blank check to the paranoid intelligence community to gather data on nearly everyone.

Congress gave a blank check to the president to wage war wherever and whenever he pleased.

"Combating terrorism does not give a blank check to kill civilians," he said.

"I am not prepared to give a blank check," he said.

We should not give a blank check to support the whims of the wealthy.

"I don't think anybody gives a blank check," he said.