1.   We like to eat, and fat-free foods just give us license to eat even more.

2.   His job as a reporter gives him license to go anywhere and ask anything.

3.   As an expansion team, Cleveland was given license to interview assistants on teams still playing.

4.   As weeks passed, NATO commanders were given increasing license to go after targets like electricity grids and water supplies.

5.   At least one committee member questioned the idea of giving licenses to people who are violating federal immigration laws.

6.   A troubled life does not give anyone license to commit a crime.

7.   A young man whose life for a decade had revolved around a particular persona had been given license to assume that identity.

8.   Budget hawks complain that framing the numbers this way gives Congress license to spend money now that will not arrive until well in the future -- if at all.

9.   But all those adults are doing it for the children, and that gives them license to do anything.

10.   DIC was well on its way to giving the license for the American toys to Kenner, a Hasbro subsidiary, Heyward said.