Only hours after the Senate voted at 1 15 a.m., 77 to 23, to give the president sweeping authority for action against Iraq, administration officials asserted that the bipartisan endorsement would force the hand of the Security Council because the United States now had all the legal authority for war that it needed.
That is, authority for action shifts to lower levels in the hierarchy, as a function of shifts in access to information.
If we receive news about drugs at sea, it takes two to three days to get an answer from authorities for action.
He also emphasized frequently that the final authority for deciding actions on defects and other safety matters resided with Toyota officials in Japan.
In the early nineties, instead of simply claiming the side of morality, as he did after ramming the Sierra, Watson began to assert legal authority for his actions.
It was Qassim Suleimani, the shadowy commander of Iran's paramilitary Quds Force, who calmly explained that he was the "sole authority for Iranian actions in Iraq," according to an account the Iraqi official later provided to American officials in Baghdad.
The less-than-severe impact that the storm had on the city led to some skepticism about whether the subways should have been pre-emptively closed, although Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Cuomo praised the transportation authority for its actions.
It goes without saying that there is an even higher authority for their actions – namely, UK Sport, the high‑performance agency whose rulebook states that athletes may be ineligible for funding if they are "derogatory about a person's disability, gender, pregnancy or maternity, race, sexuality, marital status, beliefs or age (this is not an exhaustive list)".
The core of federal public health law is found in the statutes that grant authority for various actions to DHHS, PHS, and CDC.
The "FCC has not met its burden under the First Amendment and, in part, lacks statutory authority for its actions," the court held.
Our research finds little direct legal authority for these actions.
