He had been at the forefront of changes at the authority, including plans to out source many council services.
The C.I.A.'s manifest abuse of the Glomar doctrine undermines public confidence in the classification system, distorts public debate about issues of extraordinary importance, and enables an agency with sweeping authority — including the authority to kill — to operate with insufficient public oversight.
Taxes on airline tickets expired on Friday when the F.A.A. lost its operating authority, including the authority to collect taxes.
The agency would also be given new authority, including subpoena powers, to collect such data.
The clash led to the rise of the trustee movement, which argued that lay people, not bishops, should have more authority, including the power to name priests.
She lived as a man, the new patriarch, with all the swagger and trappings of male authority — including the obligation to avenge her father's death.
Perhaps the most far-reaching recommendation was a plan to create either a joint House-Senate intelligence committee or invest the existing intelligence panels with much more authority, including the ability to set both policy and spending.
They are imbued with extraordinary authority, including the power to use deadly force, and misuse of that authority should carry serious consequences.
Police officers have great authority, including the ability to employ state-sanctioned violence, including deadly force, as they deem necessary and appropriate.
In its dealings with miscreants, it has never had such clear authority (including, ultimately, the right to strip-search with force) as it has had with Iraq.
The Democrats said in a letter that they would support the use of any authority, including the 14th Amendment, to prevent the nation from going into default, an event that some economists predict could trigger a global recession.
