Sentence examples similar to authorize power from inspiring English sources

The agreement between the two departments has been in the works since April, when the homeland security secretary, Michael Chertoff, to the dismay of environmentalists and some scientists in the Interior Department, used his Congressionally authorized power to waive environmental laws to speed access to broad swaths of land.

Moreover, only a fraction of the groups in place actually use their legally authorized power to create spending plans, select curriculums and draw up blueprints to improve academic standards, according to parent groups and legislators who spearheaded the sweeping law's passage.

For decades, federal judges, following the Supreme Court's explicit instructions, have systematically abdicated their responsibility to ensure that the U.S. government only exercises constitutionally authorized powers.

He questioned Mr. Olson closely about what he said was his view that the Legislature did not specifically authorize such power.

Constraint (14) ensures that a fraction (alpha) of the total demand is satisfied by facilities serving only demand points within a distance D. Constraint (15) stipulates that every demand point is at most assigned to one facility within the specified distance limit D. Constraint (16) authorizes power distribution only from locations within a distance D at which facilities have been located.

The Security Council resolutions that authorized an R2P-based intervention to protect Benghazi did not authorize outside powers to provide air support for the subsequent rebellion against Qaddafi.

The Obama administration finally answered a simple question today: Does the president think he has the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against an American citizen, in the United States, without trial.

In the diplomatic dance over the last two days, both France and Russia have dropped their objections to including these words, if they can be framed in a way that blunts their power to authorize immediate force.

And they said the military mission was constrained by a United Nations Security Council resolution, which authorized air power for the purpose of defending civilians.

And it gives the state — the Board of Regents or the State University of New York, which both authorize charters — the power to decide which neighborhoods or demographics the new schools would serve.

Even nonautonomous rational agents authorize the motivating power of the desires that move them to act.