Sentence examples for authority drop from inspiring English sources

"Once a school becomes an academy, unless the opposite is clearly stated in a funding agreement, the obvious checks and balances like Ofsted, Sendist and the local authority drop out and Michael Gove drops in," he explains.

The authority dropped the matter.

See articleClimbing Jacob's ladderSouth Africa's prosecuting authority dropped all charges, including those of fraud and racketeering, against Jacob Zuma, who heads the ruling African National Congress.

The authority dropped its demand to raise the retirement age for a full pension to 62 for new employees, up from 55 for current employees.

In the agreement, the authority dropped its demand for the workers to pay an additional $1,000 a year in the contract's third year to finance their pensions.

Page A11 PLAN TO FINISH REACTOR The directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority approved a plan to finish the Bellefonte 1 nuclear reactor, a project that the authority dropped in 1988 due to costs and declining power estimates.

The Airport Authority dropped a bid to persuade the Burbank City Council to approve issuance of $100 million in tax-exempt bonds needed to purchase land for the new terminal.

In 2009 primary school test results showed a slide down the national performance table for the East Riding authority, dropping eight places in the national league table to 28th after other education authorities improved more in the tests.

Khodorkovsky left Russia immediately after his release and has vowed not to return until the authorities drop old lawsuits against him worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

They are demanding that China's Communist authorities drop plans to vet candidates in Hong Kong's next leadership election.

The group demanded that the authorities drop charges.