Sentence examples for authority to resist from inspiring English sources

The Bosnian Serb parliament was the last authority to resist turning over suspects.

The new policy would also permit reclassification of documents that have already been made public, and give the Central Intelligence Agency special authority to resist decisions by an interagency panel that considers classification appeals, typically from researchers.

But as a practical matter, in very few Islamic countries do the governments have sufficient authority to resist demands for the punishment of apostates at the hands of religious authorities.

Since Page and Brin, who will serve as Alphabet's president, will continue to control a majority of the company's voting shares, they would have the legal authority to resist such calls.

For Darwall (2006, 18), to have a claim-right, "includes a second-personal authority to resist, complain, remonstrate, and perhaps use coercive measures of other kinds, including, perhaps, to gain compensation if the right is violated".

The case has also been cited on various internet sites as giving citizens the authority to resist unlawful arrest.

Most artists realize, however, that the lure of commerce over culture may be too mighty for city authorities to resist.

"We believe," Ms. Lagarde said at her news conference, "that it is important for regulators, for supervisors, for authorities to resist aggressive industry push-back".

Unusually for a northern city, where local authorities tend to resist criticising their Premier League clubs, Nick Forbes, leader of Newcastle city council, is forthright in condemning the Wonga sponsorship.

Whichever city won would also have to bear the cost of such things as transport links to the resort.Given Spain's precarious public finances, and considering that, as Mr Adelson puts it, there are "tens of billions to be made" from the resort, the authorities ought to resist any temptation to splash out taxpayers' money to win the deal.

"The challenge for local authorities is to resist the easy options of putting up the council tax bills of hardworking families or cutting frontline services.