Sentence examples for authority to declare from inspiring English sources

Only Congress has the authority to declare war.

Roosevelt applauded legislation that had expanded his authority to declare a banking holiday and stabilize the crisis in 1933.

2. Do you believe that the Supreme Court has the constitutional authority to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional?

The Harvard economists Michael Kremer and Seema Jayachandran have proposed the creation of an international institution that would have the authority to declare a regime "odious".

Our ancestors rebelled against the English monarch only to see him rapidly replaced with a president outfitted with full monarchical powers, including the authority to declare war.

Mr. Thein Sein and his national security council have too much power, including authority to declare a state of emergency at any time.

In Wales, the first 10 local authorities to declare all returned in favour of leave.

The mine owner, Grupo Mexico, said it expected the authorities to declare the strike illegal.

In April, Italian vessels rescued over 4,000 migrants in two days, prompting beleaguered authorities to declare a humanitarian emergency.

The disclosure comes as Mandelson and other peers are expected to face pressure from the House of Lords authorities to declare their clients.

The "siren song of eradication," he says, has led public health authorities to declare goals he considers more "evangelical" than attainable.