Sentence examples for beyond its authority from inspiring English sources
Those fighting the regulation are also claiming that the FCC didn't follow proper federal guidelines for creating new mandates and that it went far beyond its authority when it created the eight-hour requirement last summer.
The court's majority, making a strong statement in support of state sovereignty, held that Congress went beyond its authority when it let state workers file such claims.
The role of the watchdog is to stop banks from taking excessive risks – and if the banks were engaged in relatively low-risk areas, it is beyond its authority to step in on the question of pay, he said.
Nor are we free to rewrite the statutory scheme in order to approximate what we think Congress might have wanted had it known that § 2710(d)(7) was beyond its authority.
Opponents of the law contend that Congress went beyond its authority in the reform measure.
It is true that, as the Washington Post's Barton Gellman recently reported, the N.S.A. sometimes went beyond its authority.
In issuing his 15-page opinion, Kenyon said he is striking down the regulation because the INS had gone "beyond (its) statutory authority" in imposing such a restriction as a condition of bond.
In ruling that Congress acted beyond its constitutional authority when it opened the states to damage suits by their employees under a section of the Family and Medical Leave Act, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and his allies denied that this case had anything to do with sex discrimination.
The intelligence committee's 500-page report concluded that the CIA inflicted suffering on al-Qaida prisoners beyond its legal authority and that none of the agency's "enhanced interrogations" provided critical, life-saving intelligence.
He argued that in requiring states to cut carbon emissions, and thus to change their energy supply from fossil fuels to renewable sources, the agency is asserting executive power far beyond its lawful authority.
The longtime EPA adversary repeatedly sued the agency in tandem with fossil fuel companies and other corporate interests, often arguing that the agency's efforts to regulate pollution went beyond its legal authority.
