Sentence examples for a authority to from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a authority to" is not correct in written English.
It should be "an authority to" because "authority" begins with a vowel sound.
Example: "The committee has an authority to make decisions regarding the budget."
Alternatives: "the power to" or "the right to".

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(a) Authority to Purchase.–The Secretary is authorized to purchase, and to make and fund commitments to purchase, on such terms and conditions as determined by the Secretary, mortgage-related assets from any financial institution having its headquarters in the United States.

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The average time it takes an authority to match a child with a family after a court has decided that he or she should be adopted.

The court could appoint the FDIC as a trustee with an authority to reorganize or liquidate the failing company.

The authority of the legislature to interfere by a regulation of rates is not an authority to destroy the principles of these decisions, but simply to enforce them.

Notwithstanding the preceding list of authorities, an authority does not continue to be an authority to the extent it is overruled or modified, implicitly or explicitly, by a body with the power to overrule or modify the earlier authority.

It is possible for an authority to be sovereign over some matters within a territory, but not all.

Mike Tindall Centre – 7 Immediately lent an authority to England's midfield and, maybe even more importantly a physical edge.

Without UN authority it was again a matter of the US and British governments arrogating to themselves an authority to act unilaterally which they do not possess.

"People ask for an authority to control the chaos.

Unless there is an authority to do it.

The result was that London had an authority to which Scotland had to be obedient.

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