Sentence examples for authority to pick from inspiring English sources
Right now, the Treasury Department says it does not have the authority to pick and choose which creditors to pay.
It's not even clear that the president has the constitutional authority to pick and choose which creditors to pay and which to stiff.
After 33 years of decentralization in New York City's schools, the Legislature gave Mr. Bloomberg authority to pick both the chancellor and the majority of the school board.
Although officially atheist, the Communist Party asserts that only it has the authority to pick top spiritual leaders, who, according to Tibetan theology, are reincarnated from deceased religious figures.
Barring some last-minute mischief by the New York State Legislature, always a very real possibility, the mayor will have the authority to pick his own schools chancellor and control a majority of the Board of Education.
The speaker maintains the authority to pick committee chairmen, allocate salary bonuses, dole out pork-barrel spending and campaign contributions, decide the fate of bills and negotiate the budget.
This level of detail led the London authorities to pick a few well-publicized nits.
These factors allow workers to negotiate the highest pay rates and maximise their earnings, but leaves local authorities to pick up the bill.
Another sign of the altered American landscape was a Justice Department request to various law enforcement authorities to pick up and question 5,000 men, most from the Middle East.
Some investigators have said the killer might be an active or former law enforcement officer, because his phone calls to the relative did not last long enough to pinpoint his location and were made from Times Square and other crowded sites, which would make it more difficult for the authorities to pick him out using surveillance cameras.
"The captain…can put you in restraints for the authorities to pick up on the ground if there is a problem, but the captain can't 'arrest' you in the legal sense of the word," he says.
