As western governments improve relations with Libya, they should press the government to improve its respect for human rights. Libya's cooperation in fighting terrorism should not mean carte blanche to commit abuse.
Quotes about blanche (16 Quotes)
But this carte blanche on day cuts could go up to 15 days according to what they have in their contract.
We certainly don't want to give them carte blanche authority to determine either what is safe or unsafe without some type of basis for that decision or explaining why.
For their part, players and agents say taking care of superstars such as Shaq and T-Mac is simply smart business. Nobody wins if players are in a bad situation. And it isn't as if certain players have carte blanche, argue the agents. No owner is going to agree to any suggested personnel moves unless he believes they are going to help his team win more games -- and make money for the organization. We're really only talking about a handful of players who get their way, ... And these are guys who put people in the seats.
Our action today demonstrates that we're not going to give carte blanche approval to mergers in the defense industry, ... While industry downsizing can be desirable, or even necessary, we will do what it takes to preserve effective competition.
Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.
In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do.
If the church was in the county, this never would have happened. They never would have allowed us to be inundated with traffic out here. The city never accepted responsibility for this. They do this all over. They give carte blanche to developers. I firmly believe that's why the church was annexed into the city. I firmly believe that's why they never talked to us and they never got a development order.
Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.
I grew up watching Burns and Allen on TV. They did some amazing things on the TV show, they did surreal things. Gracie would be conspiring with her neighbor Blanche to put something over on George.
No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.
The president cannot use the pursuit of national security as a carte blanche to undermine the very freedoms that define America. This administration - like that of President Nixon - has apparently secretly adopted a legal view of the Executive Branch's power that is unbounded. A commitment to the Constitution and our laws demand an independent investigation.
Hastert said he'd given the White House control over the negotiations with Norwood. I've given them carte blanche to do that, ... We need to get a bill the president can sign and we're working with the president to try to find that place.
Lisa Graves of the American Civil Liberties Union scoffed at a defense official's assertion that the proposed change would not allow for carte blanche Pentagon spying inside the United States. That's some spin, ... The change would allow them to gather information on Americans surreptitiously. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
He will not be blunderbuss and say the president has carte blanche, ... On the other hand, he is not going to ignore national security. He will pay deference, but not blind deference.
I think the ability to sue again is not appropriate. I think if they want to drop the case, they shouldn't get a carte blanche to waste the city's time and money.