Sentence examples for authorities assertion from inspiring English sources

She also questioned the authorities' assertion that Officer Mildon stopped Mr. Colbert because he suspected that the car was stolen.

Sherrie Smith, the mother of the pilot, Jordan Smith, said he had his own key to the Piper PA-30, denying the authorities' assertion that the plane had been taken without permission.

The discovery of the parts provides another piece of the puzzle into the plane's fate and bolster authorities' assertion that the plane went down somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

Mr Khan's family has always maintained he was murdered, despite the Syrian authorities' assertions he killed himself.

Moreover, she claimed personal apostolic authority, an assertion that frequently aroused the suspicions of local bishops, forcing her to move on.

The department had argued that the Patriot Act granted it the broader wiretap authority, an assertion largely rejected by the Foreign Intelligence court in its unanimous ruling, and by several members of the Judiciary Committee.

The rampage casts doubt on authorities' repeated assertions that they are waging an effective campaign against jihadist groups.It is the first successful attack against tourists in Tunisia since the car-bombing of an ancient synagogue, on the island of Djerba, in 2002.

And despite the authority's assertion that the express coaches must use diesel, other critics note that New Jersey Transit early this year began using 50 express models, similar to the ones sought by the authority but slightly smaller, that run on compressed natural gas.

"The question in every case is, simply, whether the statutory text forecloses the agency's assertion of authority, or not," he wrote.

Authority, self-assertion.

"You need someone with a degree of authority making assertions in the story," said Herb Jackson, who writes the Capital Games column in The Record.