Sentence examples for authority or function from inspiring English sources

The memorandum "does not, and was not, intended to expand or diminish any authority or function, and to assert otherwise would be wrong," the statement said.

(b) The term foreign government includes any person or group of persons exercising sovereign de facto or de jure political jurisdiction over any country, other than the United States, or over any part of such country, and includes any subdivision of any such group or agency to which such sovereign de facto or de jure authority or functions are directly or indirectly delegated.

"This also raises the question as to whether the actions of the chair amount to an improper interference with the free exercise of his own committee's authority or functions, such as to constitute a contempt of the house," he said.

The words "activity or function" are substituted for "function, activity, or authority" for consistency.

Engineers are creating VCRs that play a rental tape only once, computers that report their owners to the authorities or cease to function if they have been tampered with, and software that records—and charges for—usage of a document down to the word.

The most serious disputes are over three issues: the power and functions of a new Northern Ireland Assembly; the authority and function of a new cross-border North-South Council, and the Irish constitutional claim to sovereignty in Northern Ireland.

For these reasons, we decided to modify the set of variables arguments of the conversational structure and to use the regression methods for training the authority estimation function.

Moreover, political decentralization involved the transfer of political authority and function from central government ministries to the local government authorities – cities, municipalities, and district councils (26).

Kids most often identify with their parents -- but aunts, uncles, teachers, coaches and other authority figures also function as role models.

It only remains to be seen whether the already withering remnants of local authority education functions stagger on, or whether, like Nixon to China, it is a Labour government that signs their death warrant.

According to market principles, a mix of public, private or charitable care services is available, and the local authorities' steering function is limited [ 20].