Sentence examples for licence to write from inspiring English sources

Enjoying the Hollywood analogy, Thomas says Daft Punk were the album's screenwriters and directors while the guest performers were the actors, but actors who were given licence to write their own lines.

For linguistic effervescence, in the early days, he looked to WS Graham and Dylan Thomas; for the licence to write about "very ordinary things in Glasgow", he followed the example of William Carlos Williams.

In China AXA will gain Winterthur's minority stake in Taikang Life, a big insurer, and a licence to write property and casualty contracts.Most big European insurers are looking farther afield for growth opportunities these days, partly because they are bumping up against each other in the mature markets close to home.

It began as a challenge to the vociferous minority of commenters on the site who seem to believe (judging from what they write) that being a professional columnist on the Guardian is a licence to write ill-informed rubbish about the issues of the moment.

"The great gimmick of this new film is its licence to thrill," wrote Anthony Quinn in The Independent.

Lindsey Graham, one of three Republican senators blocking Mr Bush's proposals on the subject, predicts that other nations would see that as a licence to re-write the treaty to suit their own secret police, which "would be disaster".

More likely, it will be popular with universities and other organisations that want to dedicate their works to the public, but prefer not having to write their own licences.

There are even more variations in the training of enrolled nurses (with 2 years of training) and auxiliary nurses (with 1 year of training), although these two categories of nurses are required to write a national licencing examination.

The SANC does not require newly qualified professional (registered) nurses with 4 years of training to write a national licencing examination, but relies on the nursing education institution's own quality assurance systems to ensure an acceptable standard of education and competencies (46).

Poetic licence: The EU in verse Independent staff were challenged to write a Brussels-themed haiku.

"When I go to get a driving licence or to report something missing to the police, they want to write down my profession.