Sentence examples for administration was authorizing from inspiring English sources

In 2005, the Bush administration was authorizing — or reauthorizing — waterboarding and other torture tactics.

Even as his administration was authorizing the permits in the Lower Ninth Ward, Nagin said that he thought building there was a bad idea.

The Administration is authorized to issue trust certificates representing ownership of all or a fractional part of debentures issued by State or local development companies and guaranteed by the Administration under this chapter: Provided, That such trust certificates shall be based on and backed by a trust or pool approved by the Administration and composed solely of guaranteed debentures.

(The administration is authorized to verify that individuals have, in fact, taken the leave by verifying this with employers). One makes an application prior to the child's birth; then half the benefit is paid 2 weeks after notifying the Social Security Administration of the child's birth and providing a birth certificate, and the remainder 30 days later.

"The policy throughout this administration up until the expiration of the arms embargo [the ban on small arms ended in March] was that we fully abided by the terms of the arms embargo, and we did nothing to violate it or circumvent it," said a senior administration official who was authorized to discuss the matter after The Times learned of it.

In June 2004, the court rejected the administration's view that it was authorized to arrest an enemy combatant anywhere and hold him indefinitely without trial.

The Obama Administration set up the bureau, which was authorized under Dodd-Frank, to guard against banks' offering too-good-to-be-true products to unsophisticated consumers.

McCabe, who was quick to characterise his firing as an attack by the Trump administration on Mueller, has said he was authorized to allow the exchange.

NATIONAL REPORTING JAMES RISEN AND ERIC LICHTBLAU The New York Times THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE AND COPLEY NEWS SERVICE Mr. Risen, 50, and Mr. Lichtblau, 40, were honored for their coverage of the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program, which was authorized by President Bush and conducted by the National Security Agency.

Congressman Thomas W. Gilmer of Virginia was authorized by the administration to make the case for annexation to the American electorate.

The official was authorized by the Obama administration to talk about its strategy, with the condition that he would not be named.