Sentence examples for authority to transform from inspiring English sources

Moreover, standing committees, unlike some select committees, have authority to transform oversight findings into legislation.

The US president's actions have left trade experts across North America divided, sparking debates as to whether the deadline set out by the White House is firm and whether the president has the authority to transform the trilateral agreement into a bilateral one.

Remarkably, the surrounding land has already been renewed by the prospect of the new plant and has been re-developed by the Authority to transform the embayment into a viable environment for marine life and community activities.

Importantly, it raises questions regarding the Commission's legal authority to transform the Universal Service Fund to support broadband.

Upon completion of their re-education sentences, those practitioners who refused to recant were then incarcerated in "legal education centers" set up by provincial authorities to "transform minds".

The city housing authority hopes to transform the shuttered St. Bernard Projects, once one of its most notoriously violent properties, into something akin to a public-housing country club with two 18-hole championship golf courses and a 45,000-square-foot YMCA.

With authorities threatening to transform Indiana's "one-size-fits-all" state tournament made famous by Hoosiers and Gene Hackman into watered-down divisional contests, the state's many basketball fans find a rallying point in a Princeton team that suddenly resembles Hickory High.

The authorities want to transform Kashgar into the transport hub of old - opening up markets in Central Asia and beyond.

Meanwhile, debate is swirling in Washington not only about the merits of the techniques but also about the wisdom of Obama's decision to exercise his unique authority to instantly transform the "top secret" documents into public ones.

"President Trump and the D.O.J. do not have the authority to unilaterally transform state and local police into federal immigration agents — or to force a city or state to decide between vital law enforcement grants and the policies they know are necessary to protect public safety," Mr. Schneiderman said.

But he criticises the current quality of LEPs that replaced the regional development agencies, calling for them to be strengthened saying "they currently do not have the authority or resource to transform their locality".