Sentence examples for authorized to elect from inspiring English sources

By a decree of 1699, townspeople (artisans and tradesmen) were released from subjection to the military governors of the provinces and were authorized to elect municipalities of their own, which would be subordinated to the Moscow municipality, or ratusha the council of the great merchant community of the capital.

The BBWAA was again authorized to elect players active in 1990 or later, but not after 2004; the ballot included candidates from the 2009 ballot who received at least 5% of the vote but were not elected, along with selected players, chosen by a screening committee, whose last appearance was in 2004.

Texas' attorney general, John Cornyn, argued for the senators that the state constitution authorized them to elect their presiding officer by a secret vote.

The California Supreme Court recognized this danger two years when asked by the Ninth Circuit Court to decide if Proposition 8 sponsors are authorized to defend it if elected officials fail to do so.

"Intelligence operatives, in the CIA as well as the FBI, had begun to see themselves as the appointed guardians of the Republic, infinitely more devoted than transient elected officials, morally authorized to do on their own whatever the nation's security demanded," Schlesinger concludes.

Each new Seimas directly elected the president, who was authorized to appoint a prime minister.

In 190 Lucius Cornelius Scipio was elected consul in Rome and was authorized to recruit a force for a campaign against Antiochus.

First, there is the truth that the C.I.A. interrogators were, for the most part, following orders and doing what they had been told they were authorized to do; to make them the prime villains is to clear the democratically elected politicians who allowed this to happen — and, more important, to clear the democracy that elected those politicians.

The office of elected justice of the peace was abolished, and the government was authorized to assume emergency powers when public order was said to be in danger.

"The president-elect told Dr. Whitaker that no one was authorized to speak for him on the matter," the report said.

A person familiar with the meeting but not authorized to speak on the record told the AP that the president-elect promised he would watch the film and suggested meeting again next month. .