Sentence examples for authority to shift from inspiring English sources

The Pentagon also requested blanket authority to shift funds, if necessary, in its regular operations budget to support allied forces help in Iraq.

Since both Republicans and Democrats were reluctant to hurt federal law enforcement, Congress granted the attorney general broad authority to shift money from other programs to pay for salaries and avoid furloughs.

Mr. Geithner and fellow regulators had urged the S.E.C. to act and could now use their new authority to shift oversight of the money market fund industry away from the S.E.C., a move that has few precedents.

It was that same political imperative that persuaded Marwan Barghouti, a rising politician in the Palestinian Authority, to shift to militancy and take charge of Fatah's militia, Tanzim, and so indirectly of the Aksa group.

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has asked Congress for the authority to shift more than $1 billion in Pentagon spending to rapidly increase the ability to provide surveillance to battlefield troops, officials said Friday.

Though he has not publicly mentioned a filibuster, Mr. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has behaved as if he is personally offended by the administration's idea that the department have authority to shift money around on its own, bypassing the appropriations process.

Fixing SWAps requires development authorities to shift their priorities.

Bernstein said it was an attempt by the "highest UK authorities to shift the issue from government policies and excessive government secrecy in the United States and Great Britain to the conduct of the press".

This forced the Irish authorities to shift course radically.

Bernstein, 69, said Rusbridger's appearance before the committee was a "dangerously pernicious" attempt by British authorities to shift the focus of the surveillance debate from excessive government secrecy to the conduct of the press.

With the emergence of liberal democracy in the modern west, however, the types of questions that philosophers asked about the interrelation between religion and political authority began to shift, in large measure because the following three-fold dynamic was at work.