Sentence examples for direct authority over from inspiring English sources
Mr. Cuomo noted that mayors and other local officials have more direct authority over gun purchases of the law-enforcement agencies under their direction than he does over housing project guards.
Together, they retained direct authority over several thousand fighters.
"As we all know the UN has not direct authority over the uniformed personnel.
The Chief Officer shall have direct authority over all Readjustment Counseling Service staff and assets, including Vet Centers.
So, as Ms. Preckwinkle acknowledges, she now has direct authority over a mere 8 percent of the budget.
The DNC has little power, because it lacks direct authority over party members in Congress and even in the states.
History has shown us over and over again that average men are capable of murder when directed to do so by an authority figure.
As director of central intelligence, Mr. Tenet has direct authority only over the Central Intelligence Agency, though he technically oversees the rest of the intelligence community, which includes more than a dozen agencies, many of them part of the Department of Defense.
Success depends on your ability to effectively influence both your direct reports and the people over whom you have no direct authority.
And roughly two-thirds of the 100,000 state jobs over which the governor has direct authority are in the prison system.
Both have thrown their support behind policies that they have no direct authority overBloomberg on mass transit, Thompson on the commuter taxbut would have to lobby Albany for.
