Sentence examples for authority to exceed from inspiring English sources

We had no authority to exceed that mandate.

He said that the law intruded on states' rights and exceeded Congress's authority to pass legislation under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

In the 1950 case, Johnson v. Eisentrager, the Supreme Court found that the prisoners could not seek review of their detention in an American court because it would interfere with the judgments of American military commanders overseas and require the courts to exceed their authority under the Constitution's separation of powers.

In short, three separate ways that the NSA managed to exceed its authority in its operation of the program.

Alexander Hamilton's own colleagues from New York abandoned him at the Convention leaving New York without a vote -- and yet amidst the low expectations and the overall bungling of the conference -- James Madison and Hamilton convinced delegates to exceed their authority and call for a federal convention the following year in Philadelphia.

Make sure you can fulfill the required demands of the licensing authority, at least - try to exceed them.

Even so, many Burgundy growers regularly petition the authorities to let them exceed their regular harvest limits by 30percentt or more.

Faculty members have also complained that the administration exceeded its authority to establish the new curriculum.

The Washington State Supreme Court ruled the municipalities had exceeded their authority to commit their citizens so the obligation was abrogated.

The central legal question for the justices on Tuesday was whether Congress had exceeded its constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce in enacting the insurance mandate.

The Eighth Circuit found that the provision exceeded the state's authority to regulate federal elections and violated the candidates' First Amendment rights.