Sentence examples for authority to intervene with from inspiring English sources

In his response to Jefferson, Shelby questioned whether he had the legal authority to intervene with force against his constituency and expressed his personal aversion to doing so.

He refused the pleas of the prison authorities to intervene with the younger inmates, instead seeking to mediate among the political factions represented on the island.

Later, Bishop Maurice Sinclair and Bishop Drexel Gomez, heads of Anglican churches in South America and the Caribbean, respectively, proposed that Anglican leaders should have authority to intervene against a fellow church, with penalties ranging from warning the church to mend its ways, to suspending it from the communion and starting a new church in its place.

By entrusting the center with authority to intervene in member units, the federal arrangements can protect minorities' human rights against member unit authorities (Federalist, Watts 1999).

It seems the world's bankers have executed a bloodless coup and now represent all of the people in the world.... President Obama agreed at the G20 meeting in London to create an international board with authority to intervene in U.S. corporations by dictating executive compensation and approving or disapproving business management decisions.

"Federal law provides the EPA with emergency authority to intervene when the safety of drinking water is compromised.

He was first sent to the town in April 2010 under a law that provided the state with limited authority to intervene in the financial affairs of failing cities.

With each case, officials must weigh when their authority to intervene trumps an individual's right to privacy.

"The idea is that, with procedural safeguards, a designated agency be provided authority to intervene and take control of a major financial institution on the brink of failure," he testified.

The commission has no legal authority to intervene.

The railroad also has no authority to intervene in federal disability cases.