Sentence examples for authority took over from inspiring English sources

But when the Palestinian Authority took over, they stopped, and a developer was later allowed to build a high-rise without the required clearance from the Department of Antiquities.

Under one such proposal, the city would stop making payments to the authority to subsidize the operations of a group of private bus lines that the authority took over at the city's request.

When the Palestinian Authority took over with its meager budget, it faced the fruits of the Palestine Liberation Organization campaign, the intifada years and entrenched norms: a population with one of the highest fertility rates in the world.

Ten years ago, long before the state airport authority took over Detroit Metro, Wayne County started working on an expansion of the airport, adding two runways, a new terminal and access roads.

In 1970, the transportation authority took over the Stewart Air Force Base, about 20 miles north of West Point, and proposed spending $1 billion to turn it into a super jetport.

2005 Marc Quinn's sculpture of the pregnant artist Alison Lapper, born with no arms and shortened legs, was unveiled after the Greater London Authority took over responsibility for the space.

And if the authority takes over the city's bridges it would also assume maintenance costs, which for the East River bridges alone total about $10 million a year.

They may meet next week, perhaps to discuss proposals to let the Palestinian Authority take over security in selected towns.That, of course, is Israel's way of testing Mr Abbas.

The minute that the college does not take action in any way, or makes a mistake, or does not protect the victim, the outside authority takes over the case.

In August 1951, Communist authorities took over the racecourse to make it into a People's Square.

In Warrensburg, Mo., where Adel Badri faced state bank-fraud charges for depositing three bad checks, federal authorities took over the case before Mr. Badri could post bond.