1.   And here ... sign this blank cheque for what you owe.

2.   There will be no blank cheque for missile defence.

3.   We cannot let our democracy become a matter of simply giving a bunch of politicians a blank cheque to govern us every five years.

4.   We are not prepared to write a blank cheque for companies that have run into trouble.

5.   He was, in a sense, given a blank cheque to negotiate the new South Africa.

6.   A spokesman for the World Wide Fund for Nature described it as a combination of a ransom note and a blank cheque.

7.   He had forced Alison to sign blank cheques and had taken her cash card and other bank books during her ordeal, said the prosecution.

8.   He said Australian troops would continue to fight the war on terror while there was a job to be done but there would not be a blank cheque.

9.   The RCD and other opposition parties had called for a boycott of the poll which they said amounted to giving the president a blank cheque to impose a dictatorship.

10.   Opposition parties had called for a boycott of the poll which they said amounted to giving President Liamine Zeroual a blank cheque to impose a dictatorship.