Sentence examples for authorising power from inspiring English sources

(That is hardly unusual anywhere: for all its speed in authorising power stations, China has hardly made a success of health care lately).

While some states' laws authorise powers of compulsory treatment and compulsory vaccination, these measures are prohibited by laws in other states.

There is a great danger of only "nice" development being authorised with powers being given to the general community.

"Senator Diane Feinstein tells me her committee authorised sweeping FBI power in case they needed telephone numbers future," he writes.

It is essential that laws authorising public health powers be passed and disseminated in advance of a pandemic and that reactive laws are not drafted in times of crisis.

But perhaps a bigger obstacle is the reluctance of ministers to surrender their power to authorise wiretaps.

Certainly, it would have refused to vest the attorney general with the power to authorise wiretaps on Americans based solely on his word.

Until now, police at superintendent rank have had the power to authorise officers to create false passports, rent new properties and live several years undercover.

Much legal argument revolves around the police's contention that they have the legal power to authorise their spies to start sexual relationships with people they were sent to spy on.

Another significant issue likely to be resolved by the investigatory powers bill is whether judicial oversight of interception warrants should be introduced or whether the power to authorise them will remain with ministers.

The 2010 budget-implementation bill, for example, came in at 883 pages and 2,221 clauses, all of which were supposed to be reviewed by MPs.Few people noticed in time in 2007 when the government took away parliament's power to authorise borrowing and gave it to the cabinet because the move was buried in an omnibus bill.