Sentence examples for authorities referred from inspiring English sources

Attending a recent international civil society gathering, I had the mortification of hearing the UK regulatory authorities referred to as "the knitting people".

The Commons authorities referred the matter to the Met 15 months later, and a formal police inquiry was launched only in January 2011.

Before Mr. Sanchez's arrest in January, the authorities referred to the attacker, who had not yet been identified, as the Bike Path Rapist because of the sites where Ms. Yalem, Ms. Mazur and eight others had been attacked.

Moreover, the Crimean authorities referred to the well-known Kosovo precedent - a precedent our Western colleagues created with their own hands in a very similar situation, when they agreed that the unilateral separation of Kosovo from Serbia, exactly what Crimea is doing now, was legitimate and did not require any permission from the country's central authorities.

The Roman authorities referred both cases to the Jewish authorities because "the charges were Jewish matters".

British authorities referred to this development as a "game changer" and "the most profound shift in the threat we have seen since 2003".

Indeed, the relevant chapters of many reference books, written by recognized authorities, refer to aerosols as an important mode of transmission for influenza (6 – 9 ).

Because of her questionable identity, the authorities refer to Geralyn Graham as Jane Doe.

The fashionable "self-balancing scooters", as authorities refer to them, are banned from pavements under a law that was passed in 1835.

As Tania works the angles, she pleads her case with a lawyer, refuses to give her name (the authorities refer to her by a prison number) and tries to keep tabs on Ivan, as she holds Nowak at bay.

Many authorities refer to these two articulations as nasals, meaning nasal stops (closure of the articulators in the oral tract), and stops, meaning oral stops (raising of the soft palate to form a velic closure).