Sentence examples for authority to lay from inspiring English sources

We need a television show with authority to lay down the law on these subjects.

Wherever the United States has such jurisdiction the state would have no authority to lay the tax.

* Did the Justice feel that the mandate was constitutional because it qualifies as a tax, and thus falls under Congress's authority to "lay and collect Taxes"?

"Therefore we expect the international community to do everything necessary in order to persuade Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to lay down their weapons".

The glowing runes that run along its entire six-hundred-mile length have yet to be deciphered, as budget cuts have forced the transit authority to lay off all of its experts in the occult.

It is now, before his most troublesome backbenchers feel they have the authority to lay down their demands, that Cameron needs to set out his own thoughts on what he wants to achieve from a renegotiation with the EU before a referendum, advisers believe.

Most countries consider taxation authority to lie with the country in which the taxable money was made.

In Alabama, too, a fiscal crisis has forced authorities to lay off school workers and to pare programs this year.

Beal, an Episcopal minister, later took his creation to New York, where he persuaded the local authorities to lay down courts in Greenwich Village to provide recreational opportunities for youth.

The spectacle in Parliament this week, when MPs grilled Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and invited UK authorities to lay out a criminal case they may be preparing to bring against the Guardian and its journalists, was a reminder of journalism's most essential role: telling truth to – and about – the people and institutions that wield and often abuse power.

"The artificial and monopolar support of a monopoly on key segments of the world economy became the fundamental cause of the crisis," Mr. Medvedev said in a keynote address to the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, an annual opportunity for Russian authorities to lay out their economic policy thinking and court foreign investors.