Sentence examples for acting under its from inspiring English sources

When TEK was arresting the machete-wielder and making the drug bust, it was probably acting under its police powers.

(By comparison, in cases of bad luck and natural disaster, the situation is simpler because the behavior of the weather, unlike the behavior of coercers, is unaffected by the incentives facing those who might be pressured into acting under its power).

For a while it appears that Elliott Johnson, under pressure from Clarke, was sometimes acting under his instructions.

American officials suspect they were acting under his instructions, though this remains a subject of debate among intelligence analysts.

The government already reached its debt limit on May 16, and is now acting under "extraordinary measures" to pay interest on its current loans and prevent default.

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service, acting under the Endangered Species Act, will decide by the end of September whether to put the birds on its list of threatened species.

It is acting under a research program that is opposed by many countries and by private environmental groups.

A mob of several thousand, unaware that it was acting under the direction of the CIA, converged on Mossadegh's house.

Collette had earlier ruled that financial review teams acting under Michigan's Public Act 4 must hold public meetings in accordance with the state's Open Meetings Act.

To the public an inept premiere is more likely to reflect badly on its composer than on performers acting under an authoritative name.

The United States removed MEK from its list of terrorist organizations in 2012, but Banisadr still considers it a fanatical cult acting under the warped leadership of the Rajavis.