Sentence examples for authority as a tool from inspiring English sources

The rule "really facilitates a capture of private property using the Clean Water Act and this onerous authority as a tool for imminent domain," said bill sponsor Representative Steve Southerland (R FL) in a statement.

This clause was included by our country's founders with the unmistakable intent of preventing any body of the United States government from levying legal authority as a tool of tyranny by the religious majority.

Article VI of our constitution clearly establishes that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States". This clause was included by our country's founders with the unmistakable intent of preventing any body of the United States government from levying legal authority as a tool of tyranny by the religious majority.

This episode may have given netizens a sense of power, but just as the Internet can function as a tool of dissent, it can also serve authorities as a tool of social control.

The PMSI database covers more than 90% of private and public hospital activity in France and is used by government and regional health authorities as a tool to provide hospital activity indicators for allocating annual budget and forecasting medical needs and resources.

As such, social capital is seen by educational authorities as a vital tool that teachers need to have and to further develop as they progress through their careers and develop into professionals of a high standard.

The results of the analysis had to serve three purposes: to deliver (1) a feedback to the hospitals so they can improve care processes, (2) a feedback to the Belgian College of Physicians that will enable them to support hospitals identified with higher or lower quality, and (3) a feedback to health authorities as a useful tool for policy making.

Formerly highly classified government documents published after the dissolution of the Soviet Union demonstrate that the authorities used psychiatry as a tool to suppress dissent.

I imagine wearing the wheel around my neck and consider what identity and authority such a tool might provide as a way of offering prayer to others.

Integrated EHRs containing longitudinal information shared for a number of different purposes, including health provision, research and planning, are viewed by governments, policy-makers and health authorities as an important tool for improving health services, patient safety and other clinical outcomes, as well as for research [ 52].

"Collectively for the Palestinians," he said, "they felt a certain kind of powerlessness as to what the Israelis were doing, and the Palestinian Authority used the grievances as a tool.