There is no blank cheque; instead we are getting a study.

There can be no more blank cheques with their lives.

I can only thank you for your kind offer of blank cheques.

In my mind that would amount to giving a blank cheque.

I have confidence in them, and taking office is, of course, not the same as being given a blank cheque.

Yet writing a blank cheque is, of course, no solution.

There are no blank cheques today, because we know the financial framework only up to 2006.

Our support is not, therefore, a blank cheque, but an investment.

It must be well understood that this is not a blank cheque.

We neither can nor want to give anybody a blank cheque.

Our purpose in life is not to sign blank cheques, Commissioner.

There is no question of our seeking or accepting a blank cheque.

It is right not to issue a blank cheque right away.

Why should we therefore tie ourselves to this same thing with a blank cheque?

But the blank cheque days are over,' he said.

"But am I writing blank cheques to anybody who says they've got a problem?

And developing nations must understand that they will not receive a blank cheque.

We cannot sign a blank cheque to bail out the countries of eastern Europe.

We cannot just issue a blank cheque, nor would we want to.

In this sense the contingencies of space and time, as it were, issue blank cheques.

Special Circumstances was not notorious for its desire to issue blank cheques to anyone.

That's the same as making her give him a blank cheque for the rest of her life.

What we needed in 2008 was a measured government response, not the writing of blank cheques by the Treasury.

The blank cheque for the future currently being demanded in the report really cannot be taken seriously.

I am not prepared to sign a blank cheque.

That is not the same as a military blank check.

I, for one, am not willing to give the federal government a blank check.

The times call for hard bargaining, not a blank check.

And remember, if things get tough, you have a blank check.

"I think the elected public officials should be in control, rather than give the police a blank check."

But did he really want to issue such a blank check to Whoever?

Giving a blank check to anyone in Government is not wise.

"Well, the people of Georgia said no to that blank check."

Corporate air travel is no longer the land of the blank check.

The court declared that "a state of war is not a blank check for the president."

There will no longer be a blank check for the Pakistani military.

"But why do I get the feeling you're asking me to sign a blank check?"

He had given me the blank check with his signature on it.

"We will not give him a blank check," a party spokesman said.

The Pope did not give his host a blank check.

You have full authority and a blank check for finances.

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

Offer a blank check and the answer will be, sorry, it is not for sale.

She said the diocese gave her a blank check on resources.

Parents send their children to her tables with blank checks.

The metaphor of the "blank check" is thus often used in politics.

They signed a blank check that will do little to enhance their security.

"We just don't want to give the president a blank check."

"He didn't want to give them a blank check for a month."

"What they want is a blank check but no input.

He had been given carte blanche, and for good reason.

Actually, he gave me a carte blanche in that area.

He gave them carte blanche, and went back to sleep.

That was about as close to carte Blanche as he ever got.

I have carte blanche from the office for anything up to fifty.

As you can see, I have a carte blanche pass for the entire country.

What if he had carte blanche to design his heart's desire?

He seems to have had carte blanche access to his subjects.

What he could do with carte blanche about subject matter we can only imagine.

But it's another to give them carte blanche in running schools."

He had given her carte blanche with his bankers and she used it.

I should tell you that he has carte blanche. "

Carte Blanche has also covered the story of a world champion free diver.

In fact, the first guy has carte blanche to nail anybody.

There can be no question of giving the Commission carte blanche in this field.

"The oil industry has always had carte blanche in Alaska," she said.

He gave me carte blanche: do whatever you want; give him 30 pages at a time.

This gave Patterson carte blanche to make of it what he would.

He wants it to go so he's got carte blanche."

He was not giving us carte blanche to act individually as we thought best.

"How often do you have carte blanche to punch out the Congressman next door?"

We'll have carte blanche to do what we want to do.

And he had carte blanche to report on what he saw.

She had been given keys, and carte blanche to show the apartment during working hours.