Sentence examples for control over agencies from inspiring English sources

Indeed, Ms. Kagan has told her students that as a policy matter she shared the views of those who believe in the strongest vision of presidential control over agencies, but that she thought their constitutional theory was "total garbage," according to February 2002 class notes taken by Alexander Volokh, who was then a Harvard law student and is now an Emory University law professor.

The mayor learned only recently of an obscure panel -- the Vacancy Control Board -- used by previous administrations to exercise control over agency hiring.

Mr Negroponte may gain a modicum of control over the agencies.

As a Harvard law professor, she wrote an article defending steps Mr. Clinton had taken to centralize control over government agencies.

Mr. Putin's party, United Russia, is expected to win an overwhelming majority in the elections, aided by the Kremlin's control over government agencies and the news media.

China's navy is seeking to expand a maritime militia of fishing vessels and to enhance its control over civilian agencies that regulate activities in coastal waters.

Corporate clients discovered that there was no inherent connection between the inventiveness of a commercial and its positive effect on sales, and they began to exercise a much tighter creative (or uncreative) control over ad agencies' commercial productions.

Mr. Warner suggested in comments last week that he feared that lawmakers were moving hastily in restructuring the intelligence community and that it might be dangerous for the Pentagon to lose control over intelligence agencies needed by soldiers on the battlefield.

And both the Reagan and George Bush administrations increased their control over executive agencies to advance a deregulatory agenda, despite opposition from Democratic lawmakers, while also developing legal theories and tactics to increase executive power, like issuing signing statements more frequently.

"The American people deserve better, and Congress has an obligation to exert more control over spy agencies than simply to give them a blank check for another five years," he said.

The law similarly gives the DNI control over the agencies' personnel, but here too there is devilment in the detail: in practice, the DNI can veto the appointment of some second-tier officials, but he will not be able to sack agency chiefs.To shore up the DNI's putative powers, Mr Bush has suggested that Mr Negroponte, not Mr Goss, will deliver his morning intelligence briefing.