Sentence examples for authorising the construction of from inspiring English sources

EXACTLY 56 years after Dwight Eisenhower signed into law a bill authorising the construction of an interstate-highway network, Congress passed a transport bill on June 29th.

Ministers say the payments, which will apply only to those living in rural areas and will be available if and when the legislation authorising the construction of HS2 is passed by Parliament, will enable people to "share early in the benefit of the railway".

The bill became an Act of Parliament on 1 April 1772, authorising the construction of a canal to run "from the River Dee, within the liberties of the city of Chester, to or near Middlewich and Nantwich".

Brazil's president, Dilma Vana Rousseff, has authorised the construction of a dam that will flood their homeland.

On a plot of land just beyond the built-up area, he has authorised the construction of several places of worship.

In the mid-1940s Congress authorised the construction of Buford Dam to create Lake Lanier, an immense reservoir divided among the five counties north-east of Atlanta.The federal government paid for the dam; Atlanta contributed nothing to its construction costs.

In 2003, President Bush authorised the construction of a $500m building near the Washington Monument as the site of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, to be run by Lonnie Bunch, the former director of curatorial affairs at the Smithsonian.

Just before the announcement, the Israeli defence ministry said it had authorised the construction of 112 apartments in the Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit, on the occupied West Bank.

Since the UN general assembly voted a month ago to recognise the state of Palestine, Israel has authorised the construction of thousands of new homes in existing settlements, the development of a highly sensitive expanse of land east of Jerusalem, and the building of the first new settlement across the Green Line for 15 years.

MPs are due to decide next year whether to authorise the construction of new nuclear-armed submarines which would replace the current generation of four subs when they end their working lives in the late 2020s.

The Royal Navy's 1936 Naval Programme authorised the construction of two aircraft carriers.