Sentence examples for been given authority over from inspiring English sources

Students were astonished and happy to have been given authority over rules about assignments and attendance.

Mr. Duncan has also been given authority over a $5 billion grant program called the "Race to the Top Fund," designed to encourage innovation.

At least two children I knew who had been given authority over younger kids used it to force sexual contact – Williamson seemed to have turned a blind eye.

The office led by Cardinal Ratzinger, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, had actually been given authority over sexual abuse cases nearly 80 years earlier, in 1922, documents show and canon lawyers confirm.

Philip Morris has urged that the government be given authority over such cigarettes.

She started a conflict-management team at school that was given authority over on-campus incidents.

Mr. Reed was given authority over Citigroup's Internet strategy and other technology initiatives.

The Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration were given authority over different aspects of the business, from field testing of new ideas to the review of new foods.

Although the agency was given authority over those types of companies in the Dodd-Frank regulatory overhaul legislation passed after the financial crisis, those powers by law could not take effect without a director.

Joe Margulies, an attorney for Abu Zubaydah, said the document "confirms what we've been saying all along and shows what happens when amateurs are given authority over the nation's security.

The compromise would have created a group of three so-called super-bishops, chosen from among traditionalists, who would be given authority over parishes that refuse to accept the leadership of a female bishop or priest.