Sentence examples for because it authorized the from inspiring English sources
This law became known as the Superfund Act because it authorized the creation of a large fund supported by a tax on the chemical manufacturing and petroleum industries, the two major producers of toxic wastes.
On Thursday, however, Republicans raised a budget point of order, saying that the bill violated the Budget Control Act because it authorized additional government financing.
But lawmakers included them in the final legislation anyway, and Mr. Obama is considered unlikely to veto the measure because it authorizes billions of dollars for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"This busing narrative is comforting because it authorizes people to accept the continuing racial and socioeconomic segregation of schools in the United States as inevitable and unchangeable".
However, it is still a key part of the foreign policy process because it authorizes programs such as foreign aid and has the power to hold oversight hearings and help shape the U.S. foreign policy agenda.
The judges presiding over their military commissions ruled that the Military Commissions Act did not give them the jurisdiction to try Hamdan and Khadr, because it only authorized the trial of "unlawful enemy combatants".
The school board argued in response that it should not have to pay the consultant's fees, because the provision authorized the recovery of attorneys' fees only.
The two psychologists have argued that they should have immunity from prosecution over the enhanced interrogation program because it was authorized by the executive branch during a time of war.
'Zealous' is a word that lawyers love, because it seems to authorize the most aggressive activity on behalf of a client.
But several senators said they were still unhappy with the draft, particularly because it would authorize unilateral action if the United Nations does not join an attack.
