Sentence examples for authorities sat from inspiring English sources

Contrast that with the two years that Greek tax authorities sat on that same list after the French government, which had seized it in a criminal investigation, turned it over to Greece to determine whether some of those Swiss accounts were possibly linked to tax evasion.

The authorities sat on the application for years.

This is, in part, an unwanted by-product of decentralisation: inept local authorities sit on funds for projects they cannot get started.

Should governments and authorities sit back and allow the tobacco industry a "free market" to advertise and sell their deadly products?

With unemployment at a post-war high of 4.3% and bankruptcies increasing, a growing number of parents are unable to afford what was once their pride and joy an expensive and exclusive education for their offspring.Only anecdotal information exists while nervous authorities sit on the figures.

Companies appear to have little power to stop this practice so long as our own trade authorities sit on the sidelines.

But there is a more positive view, which is why I trek up another hill (symbols of wealth and authority sit on hills in Newport) to the impressive, art-deco civic centre to meet Tracey Lee, managing director of Newport city council.

"In Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of people will be helplessly exposed to the elements this winter, no matter which authority sits in Kabul.

The British authorities have sat on their hands, apparently unconcerned that a leading edge industrial group will split into several parts, thinning it ties to UK investment, manufacture and jobs.

Doug McDonald, who at the time was the head of the water resources authority, just sat there and laughed at them.

Mr Marengo continued that authorities "cannot sit idly by" while the girl is "forced to endure more agony and torment".