Sentence examples for beyond their authority from inspiring English sources

In a flier that workers said had been distributed to them by managers on Thursday morning, the factory's management said it was beyond their authority to recognize a union.

The Bush and Obama administrations and the Federal Reserve have scoffed at those assertions, saying that a government-led rescue of Lehman was beyond their authority, a result of a gap in the financial regulatory architecture that has now been fixed.

The Supreme Court said it would consider in May or June whether city officials, under Mr. Newsom's direction, acted beyond their authority "in refusing to enforce the provisions" of the state's family code that define marriage as between a man and a woman.

But several prosecutors said that in some cases, grand juries had stepped beyond their authority by raising issues that, by law, only a judge can decide, like asking whether officers were justified in stopping or arresting a suspect, or whether they collected evidence properly.

This fund last year generated income of £140m towards bankrolling the additional expenditures of Woolf and the corporation above and beyond their local authority obligations.

The groups that sued to block the rule claimed officials at the Labor Department went beyond their statutory authority when they crafted it.

These pashas extended their authority beyond the eyālet of Baghdad to include Mārdīn, ʿUrfa, and much of Kurdish Shahrizūr and thus dominated the northern trade routes and secured additional sources of revenue.

The debate in Europe over alleged political motivation behind judicial reform has taken on an international perspective when, as in the case of Mr. Garzón's pursuit of Gen. Pinochet, judges have sought to exercise their authority beyond their own borders.

Greenpeace, which prides itself on being largely funded by relatively small individual donations, apologised to supporters for the loss, claiming that the "serious error of judgment" was the result of a single staff member "acting beyond the limits of their authority and without following proper procedures".

The inability of rulers from beyond the Alps to impose their authority upon it was clearly and finally demonstrated by the expedition (1310 13) of Henry of Luxembourg, crowned as Emperor Henry VII.

He asked a UCPD sergeant who was present at the meeting whether their authority extended beyond that, to which she replied that it did not.