Sentence examples for licensed to speak from inspiring English sources

Their relationship has been like an autocratic leader's to a wise fool, licensed to speak the truth.

The Labour Party chairman, Charles Clarke, one of the few ministers licensed to speak on the issue, has called this "the decisive year".

More experienced, more self-confident and trusted enough – at last – by Labour cabinet colleagues, he was licensed to speak his mind freely as a big political beast, not as a Blair-Brown courtier.

In medieval courts, the jester had special license to speak unpalatable truths.

"The court jester was a figure who had license to speak ill of anyone including the king.

According to Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams's plays gave a new generation of playwrights, including Miller, "a license to speak at full throat".

Then it was my turn to ask a question, and I used a child's license to speak what was on everybody's mind.

It gives employees a license to speak up, Houston said.

While this certainly makes him no expert or authority figure, I do think it gives him some license to speak about issues impacting poor communities of color.

In the opening narration, Philip set to release his sure-to-succeed second novel is given license to speak his mind and, boy, does he ever.

"Whether it's a rise in hate crimes, people feeling they have license to speak and behave in ways that previously were considered un-American and are un-American.