Sentence examples for authority to delay from inspiring English sources

But Mr. LaHood used his authority to delay the deadline.

In recent weeks, the developer asked the authority to delay the closings and payments.

Republicans said the Treasury should use the same authority to delay enforcement of tax penalties for people who go without insurance.

He said his group's next priority was pressing the authority to delay imposing penalties on lower-income people who may struggle to afford the minimum required insurance.

Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky, a Westchester Democrat, said of Mr. Paterson, "He doesn't have the legal authority to impound; he may have the legal authority to delay".

The Council disagreed with the ruling, saying in a motion that the court had no authority to delay punishment prescribed by the "legislative act of a municipality" unless it brought Mr. Owen to trial.

On Tuesday, Saipem's chief executive, Umberto Vergine, said the corruption inquiry was causing the Algerian authorities to delay payments to Saipem for oil and gas construction.

The Republican-led House voted overwhelmingly last month to repeal a provision of the law that allows federal authorities to delay notification that search warrants have been executed.

That is why it was right for Iraqi authorities to delay, for at least a couple of weeks, a potentially crucial national conference originally scheduled for this past weekend.

"We think there's an effort by judicial authorities to delay the process for four or five years until the matter is forgotten," Joel Rosales, the mayor of San Juan de Marcona, said this month.

The leaked letter said a Conservative government "would not pay a penny of compensation to speculative developers as a consequence of changes in planning policy", giving a licence to authorities to delay developments.