Sentence examples for executive act from inspiring English sources

Treaties and conventions require ratification, an executive act of final approval.

"All I can say is it's great to see the county executive act on this idea".

Gov. Bill Haslam on Monday defended his first executive act: eliminating the requirements for the governor and top aides to disclose how much they earn in outside income.

He was independent of both executive and judiciary and had full powers to inquire into the details of any administrative or executive act and into certain judicial activities if reported to him by individuals as an abuse of rights.

He can go to Mr Jaworski and plead for help; he can ask the new President for a pardon; or, astonishingly, he can pardon himself as his final Executive act.

In her first executive act, Mrs. Arroyo -- whose father, Diosdado Macapagal, was president in the 1960's -- plans to prohibit all government agencies from doing business with her family, the aides said.

Two committees, the scrutiny committee and the audit committee, consist entirely of backbenchers, and have the job of ensuring that the executive acts with propriety.

They have said the chief executive acted too slowly to rectify quality control problems at McNeil and, more generally, was too slow to put a succession plan in place.

Something must be awry if Enron's chief executive acted so erratically, Wall Street surmised, and Mr. Koenig, a longtime Enron veteran, had not been able to forestall it.

During his last year in office, the Deomocratic House of Representatives passed a resolution calling upon him for a list of all executive acts in his 2 terms in office which had been "performed at a distance from the seat of government established by law".

Marcus Fulvius Flaccus, chairman of the commission and consul in 125, tried to solve the problem by offering the Italians the citizenship (or alternatively the right to appeal against Roman executive acts to the Roman people) in return for bringing their holdings of public land under the Gracchan law.