Sentence examples for blanket authority from inspiring English sources

Mr. Panetta should seek blanket authority from Congress to shrink the Pentagon bureaucracy.

Some lawmakers wonder why the governor needs the blanket authority to spend another $10 billion without legislative approval.

Elsewhere in the budget, the administration requests that Congress grant it blanket authority to change statutory or regulatory requirements for HUD programs.

But a fight is brewing over the governor's proposal that he be given the blanket authority to distribute up to $10 billion in federal aid for Lower Manhattan.

A roving wiretap confers blanket authority to tap all phones a suspect uses, instead of requiring separate applications for each telephone.

The Pentagon also requested blanket authority to shift funds, if necessary, in its regular operations budget to support allied forces help in Iraq.

Indonesia has also declined to look for bank accounts of many of the organizations on the Bush administration's terrorist list, and it has not granted blanket overflight authority to American warplanes.

Earlier this month, the Chicago City Council overwhelmingly approved two ordinances Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced to crack down on expected NATO and G8 protesters via stricter rules for parade organizers, increased fines for resisting arrest and a green light for the mayor's blanket spending authority for the summits going forward.

The worker was sorting a cart of soiled hospital linens when he found the infant girl's body, wrapped in a blanket, the authorities said.

He shot one of the tires, but his other shots struck a group of illegal immigrants from Guatemala who had been hiding in the bed of the truck under a dark blanket, the authorities said.

What is clear is that these programs worked to create a pervading sense of depression and anxiety throughout the Muslim and Arab American communities and a blanket distrust of authorities.