Sentence examples for acting authority from inspiring English sources

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As no less an acting authority than Alec Guinness once pointed out, in a 1953 program for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, the plays were traditionally performed in attire drawn from the era in which they were produced until in the 19th century manager-actors such as Charles Kean and William Macready introduced a vogue for historical accuracy in Shakespeare.

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"We'll continue to watch very closely the preliminary results in Georgia, where the people are not in favour of the acting authorities so they should be changed".

The acting authorities must send a signal that this sort of behaviour will not be tolerated in Ukraine".

In November 2009, Tymoshenko called Ukraine "an absolutely ungovernable country" due to the changes to the Constitution of Ukraine as a part of a political compromise between the acting authorities (former-President Kuchma) and opposition during the Orange Revolution.

Obama is acting under authority granted by the Antiquities Act, which allows a president to create a national monument with the stroke of a pen, and without action by Congress.

In 1729 Rogers, acting under authority from the crown, issued a proclamation summoning a representative assembly, and from then on, apart from brief interruptions caused by foreign invasion, the government of the colony carried on in an orderly manner.

In each of the three recent cases, Mr. Levy said he was acting on authority given him under a 1996 law that expanded the chancellor's power over superintendent appointments and removed considerable control from local district board members.

Each time, administration officials said they were acting under authority that gives federal officials the power to phase in changes to tax law.

Flynn was certainly a "citizen" acting "without authority of the United States" when he had his pre-inauguration talks with the Russian ambassador.

Nevertheless, the Court noted that the denial of benefits should only have occurred if Longernecker had been dishonorably discharged and that the VA Administrator was acting without authority in treating a blue discharge as if it were dishonorable.

The U.S. Marshals Service is the country's oldest federal law enforcement agency, acting under the authority of the federal courts.

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