Sentence examples for broad authorities from inspiring English sources

"We believe the US government should have broad authorities to investigate terrorism and espionage, and that it is possible to aggressively pursue terrorists without compromising the constitutional rights of ordinary Americans," Wyden and Udall wrote to Alexander.

Asked whether the Council would have the authority to sign contracts and make decisions about privatizing state corporations, Mr. Bremer responded, "The coalition made it very clear in its discussions yesterday with the Governing Council that we consider that the coalition has very broad authorities to determine the direction of the Iraqi economy".

But critics say that the bill's "broad authorities that would undermine cybersecurity and human rights, including the right to privacy" by forcing companies to build backdoors and hand over user data — even when it's encrypted.

The Constitution requires Congress to declare wars, but in this case, Obama said he doesn't need lawmakers' signoff because of the broad authorities provided under the 2001 AUMF.

Nor has anyone said they would sue him if he took the alternative, equally controversial, step of using his broad authorities as guardian of the constitutional order to unilaterally raise the borrowing threshold.

In Regan v. Wald, the Supreme Court found that President Ronald Reagan was legally justified in tightening restrictions on travel to Cuba because of the broad authorities he retained under TWEA.

JPMorgan, Mr. Dimon said, has broad authority to recoup pay.

Section 1881a of the act gave the president broad authority to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance.

There is ample evidence that, in practice, this kind of broad authority has been abused.

Describes the broad authority to detain suspects as used by police.

The Russian government has awarded Rosneft broad authority to negotiate multiple exploration deals with foreign companies.