Sentence examples for authority for activities from inspiring English sources

The authorisation for the dam project was one of dozens of specific spending amendments introduced in the Senate deal, ranging from a "gratuity of $174,000 for the widow of Senator Lautenberg Frank Lautenbergrg, the long-serving New Jersey senator who died in June) to "authority for activities to counter Lord's Resistance Army" in Uganda.

Such a centre, based on the model of the European agencies, would act as an authority for coordinating activities, but would also be a unique information exchange, which would be entrusted with the very specific priority mission of tracing missing children, by networking the national search centres and the schemes set up by associations and families in our various countries.

Mohsen Amir-Aslani was arrested nine years ago for his activities which the authorities deemed were heretical.

Another source claimed that Rayburn was eventually captured and imprisoned by federal authorities for guerrilla activities.

In 1905 he joined Po'alei Zion, a Zionist workers' party, and was briefly imprisoned by tsarist authorities for his activities.

Nair was detained twice by the British authorities for anticolonial activities: once in 1951 for two years, and again from 1956 until 1959.

It was also at the age of 17 that he had his first run-in with the authorities for his activities.

Lethal missions would take place under Title 10 of the U.S. Code, which governs military operations, rather than Title 50, which sets out the legal authorities for intelligence activities and covert operations.

The husband of Gao Zhan, a Chinese research fellow at American University in Washington, said that she has been held in Beijing for more than five weeks, as the authorities investigate her for "activities damaging state security".

For the next 20 years the Covenant continued to be, in theory, not only the guide and authority for all the activities of the League, but also the criterion by which liberal opinion in many developed countries judged the conduct of their own and other governments.

If the project is below US$250 million it will not need to go to the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC), which is the highest authority for approving development activities.