Sentence examples for authority run from inspiring English sources

The City of London Corporation is a local authority run by its firms rather than its residents.

In 2008, the authority, run by the daughter of Qatar's emir, opened the Museum of Islamic Art in a building designed by I.M. Pei.

For years, inspectors with the San Diego regional airport authority run down their checklist for each cabbie proof of insurance, functioning windshield wipers, adequate tire treads, good brakes.

And the croquet party hosted by the Red Queen (Edna May Oliver) turns into an Ubuesque scramble of authority run amok, in which the terrorized participants ("Off with their heads!") flail around in violent desperation using actual flamingoes as mallets.

Massoud, a commander of Hamas's armed wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam brigades, fled from Gaza to Egypt where he was detained but released in late 2007, to the fury of the western-backed Palestinian Authority, run by Hamas's rival, Fatah.

A snapshot of the dangers facing American forces in Iraq can be gleaned from a document on the latest threats to allied forces that is prepared by the occupation authority run by L. Paul Bremer III.

The authority runs the airport.

The authority runs through that in less than an hour.

The authority runs the region's airports, bridges and tunnels.

The sports authority runs the Meadowlands Sports Complex, which includes Continental Arena.

The authority runs some operations that are profitable and others that lose money.