Sentence examples for licensed to act from inspiring English sources

With his broken-nose profile, a sign of the battles undertaken long ago, Scott seemed to be licensed to act as a cop, lawyer -- and, of course, judge and jury -- and he charged into each tableau spoiling for a fight, a magnificent ham bearing the scars of his tussles for the little people.

That broke the rules under which it is licensed to act as a stockbroker.

His attackers are offered a license to act impulsively, so long as they also think as team players.

And it gave Bradley the license to act as playmaker, while doing his share of dropping back when needed.

Mr. Berkoff is well aware of the hubris of his presentation; the lecture format gives him license to act out snippets of tragedy, all by himself, without the context of a production.

He mailed the overdue materials back to the library and sued Unique on the grounds that the company's license to act as a debt collector in New York City had lapsed.

Although the accounts of the precise version of events differed, the audacity of the assassination amplified the outrage, as many Tunisians feel the government has failed to deliver on law and order and allowed radical Islamists a license to act with impunity.

Under an arrangement adopted by the F.C.C. to encourage a more efficient use of the airwaves, those companies will receive licenses to act as "band managers," leasing portions of the spectrum that they won to third parties and commercial users for applications like dispatching services.

The accusation may be made that this merely gives each individual license to act as they happen to prefer at the time.

This doesn't give anyone license to act reprehensibly.

With Pellit, Seth gave me complete license to act as pathologically screwed up as possible".