Sentence examples for authority the size from inspiring English sources

"Local government is having the most challenging time under public expenditure restraints and £4.5m, even for a local authority the size of Kent, is another mountain to climb," he said.

Under the proposals – backed by the communities secretary, Eric Pickles – a new authority the size of Glasgow or Leeds would be created, although each council would keep its leader and local ward councillors.

"But there is no quick-fix solution to the problems faced in an authority the size of Birmingham.

At the meeting, Rhondda Cynon Taf council leader Andrew Morgan said: "We may wish to argue that an authority the size of Rhondda Cynon Taf could feasibly argue to stand alone when you consider the economies of scale we already achieve when compared to neighbouring authorities, but we cannot strongly defend our position if we have not explored what opportunities there may be.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The Report, Rochdale Council leader Colin Lambert says he has been worried about the safety of young people in care for some time: "When you have got as many homes in an authority the size of Rochdale you are grouping together, in a small population, a large number of children who are vulnerable and that is an issue".

"If no action is taken by fiscal authorities, the size of the fiscal cliff is so large that the Fed would have no ability to offset that effect on the recovery," Bernanke said.

In recent negotiations, the authority cut the size of the church slightly and told church officials that its dome could not rise higher than the trade center memorial.

Thomas Smith, senior environmental analyst for the State Department of Environmental Protection, worked with the Authority, explaining the size specifications and other guidelines to constructing the pier.

The main result of the model is that governments prefer to delegate authority when the size of the time inconsistency problem is large relative to the uncertainty of the political consequences of the agent's policy choice, while they prefer to ask for advice if the opposite is true.

The difficulty of detecting such migrations is complicated for British authorities by the size of the British-Pakistani population, which can help aspiring militants slip into Pakistan undetected.

Despite this lack of expertise, Rainey became a central figure in informing US authorities about the size of the spill and submitted a lengthy memo to the House subcommittee investigating the spill.