Sentence examples for authority for years from inspiring English sources

"As N.Y.P.A. inspector general, he investigated waste, fraud and abuse that had existed at the authority for years.

"But one of us, he's been a Labour councillor, he's been on the police authority for years and years, he's even been the lord mayor of Flint.

The attorney general has had such authority for years under agreements with the current and previous governors, but the Assembly Democrats said it should be in law.

These checks aim to avoid repeating mistakes of the past — either creating more Afghan warlords, who have defied the government's authority for years, or arming Islamic militants, some of whom came back to haunt the United States.

We left at 16 and went to other schools for A-levels, but I railed against authority for years to come, and shirked anything that smacked of commitment or routine.

In Jericho, Palestinians attacked an ancient synagogue that has been protected by the Palestinian Authority for years; the police intervened and kept them from burning it, Palestinian officials said.

Congress has been starving public housing authorities for years.

They had been monitoring my father, with the help of the Egyptian authorities, for years.

LR's founder, Arthur Budovsky (pictured on previous page, after his arrest), had been known to the authorities for years.

Boshe's villagers have resisted Chinese authorities for years, blockading the village entrance with motorcycles when word of a raid spread.

Indeed, city authorities for years have generally left day laborers alone at the dozens of sites across the city where they gather to wait for work.