Sentence examples for authority to reduce from inspiring English sources

Absent that, he said he had no authority to reduce Anthem's rates.

The Bush administration has insisted that the new regulator have the discretion and authority to reduce the companies' mortgage portfolios.

Despite industry pressure, the bill preserves much of the Environmental Protection Agency's regulatory authority to reduce emissions from power plants.

Obama's Environmental Protection Agency, backed by the force of a Supreme Court ruling, has the authority to reduce carbon pollution through regulation.

Aides hold out hope for reaching a budget deal, resuscitating gun control and using executive authority to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

The authority to reduce aid was used against an allied or friendly country only once in the last two decades, Colombia in 1994.

Serco, for example, works with local authorities to reduce their ecological footprints.

The government is encouraging local planning authorities to reduce light pollution, but plans to dim lights at certain times of the night are unpopular with residents.

It also encourages public housing authorities to reduce the concentration of very poor tenants in buildings, a situation Mr. Lazio believes contributes to crime.

This policy response was widely interpreted by economists as an effort by the authorities to reduce inflation rates that had begun to accelerate in the latter 1960s.

According to the plan, the Administration will provide guidance and funding to local authorities to reduce testing, which, it states, henceforth should take up no more than two per cent of instructional time.