Sentence examples for blank check authority from inspiring English sources

What will they do with this blank check authority?

But Sen. McGovern voted for the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1964, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson almost blank-check authority to escalate the war.

"Congress is being asked to delegate away its constitutional trade authority over the TPP, even after the administration ignored bicameral, bipartisan demands about the agreement's terms, and then also grant blank-check authority to whomever may be the next president for any agreements he or she may pursue," said Lori Wallach, director of Global Trade Watch.

The result of voting for this resolution will be to give the president a blank check with broad authority to use our armed forces to unilaterally attack Iraq.

The FTC interpreted that 1972 decision as a blank check to use its authority over unfair trade practices (distinct from, but related to, its authority over unfair methods of competition) to regulate everything from funeral parlors to children's advertising.

To act sooner would be like handing the authority a "blank check," he said.

All nations that provide the Palestinian Authority with a blank check for such illicit affairs are complicit in the killing of civilians.

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Since the Fast Tracked 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement revealed what really was at stake with the arcane Nixon-era procedure, getting any Congress to delegate years of blank-check Fast Track authority has been a very hard sell.

Yet the case is based on a technical issue: did the state have the authority to write a blank check for the sea?

"We must pass the right authorization, one that gives the president the authority he needs to combat the horrors of ISIL while not writing such a blank check that the Congress legislates itself into irrelevance in the conduct of the war," he said.