Sentence examples for authorities expanded from inspiring English sources

The bills would give federal authorities expanded powers to crack down on foreign sites suspected of piracy.

In July, the Romanian authorities expanded an investigation into Adrian Severin, a representative and former foreign minister, accusing him of helping Romanian companies sell "fictive services" that robbed the Parliament's budget of €436,663.

LAKEWOOD, N.J. — Even as the authorities expanded their search for a man wanted in the killing of a police officer in this central New Jersey town, charges were filed against the suspect on Saturday.

NEW DELHI -- The authorities expanded a strict curfew across Kashmir on Tuesday and sent more security officers across the restive Himalayan region after bloody protests erupted there a day earlier, fueled partly by a report of Koran desecration in the United States.

Its opening sentence reads: “The intent of this act is to make attrition [of the immigrant population] through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona.” In short, it is criminalizing immigration-related violations under state law not to deal with immigrant-related crimes but to give state authorities expanded tools to drive out immigrants.

It voted to give authorities expanded policing and surveillance power and approved the creation of a national counterterrorism agency.

13 March Malaysian authorities expand their search for the missing jet into the Andaman Sea and beyond after acknowledging it could have flown for several more hours after its last contact with the ground.

Only at the start of the 20th century, as executive-branch authority expanded under Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, did timidity overcome the Senate.

As more and more of Medina was absorbed into the Muslim community and as the Meccans weakened, Muhammad's authority expanded.

Congressional authority expanded yet again when the Court decided Gonzales v. Raich in 2005, upholding the federal Controlled Substances Act and allowing prosecution of a cancer patient who used homegrown marijuana, which was legal under California law.

Yet little by little, police authority expanded, one weapon after another was added to the police arsenal, and one exception after another was made to the standards that have historically restrained police authority.