Sentence examples for a wide authority from inspiring English sources

After a compromise under which a division of the powers of regency was arranged, Perdiccas exercised a wide authority in Asia as "supreme general" and soon began to act as if he meant to make himself king.

Last July he started the process of decentralizing McDonald's highly centralized operation by forming five divisions, each led by a president with wide authority.

After Rubio, a frequent beneficiary of support from the National Rifle Association, first unveiled the legislation in 2015, the lobby group raised his rating from a B+ to an A. Congress has wide authority to oversee local laws in the nation's capital.

The unitary business rule is a recognition of the States' wide authority to devise formulae for an accurate assessment of a corporation's intrastate value or income and the necessary limit on the States' authority to tax value or income that cannot fairly be attributed to the taxpayer's activities within the State.

Despite such research, Californians passed Proposition 21 in 2000, giving prosecutors wide authority to charge a juvenile in adult court.

Internal security and domestic counterintelligence operations are conducted by the Department of State Security (DSE), an arm of MININT, which has wide authority to monitor local elites and the general public.

In the 1190s a single senator was able to exercise wide authority in the territories surrounding Rome.

As a leader in the bishops' council until 1990, he had wide authority throughout the church in Latin America.

United States law gives the Justice Department wide authority to bring cases against foreign nationals living abroad, an authority that prosecutors have used repeatedly in international terrorism cases.

Business leaders have argued the label will boost the area's international profile, while some politicians have gone a step further and called for a region-wide authority.

In theory, the Governing Council has wide authority.