The phrase "exercise its authority" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing an entity (an organization, an individual, a government, etc.) taking action to assert its power or influence. For example: "The government is exercising its authority by implementing stricter regulations on air pollution."
But Melbourne city council senior counsel, Richard Niall QC, told the court there had been no refusal or failure by council to exercise its authority, because it had investigated complaints against the centre.
Regardless of how serious the problem an administrative agency seeks to address, however, it may not exercise its authority "in a manner that is inconsistent with the administrative structure that Congress enacted into law".
"It should be a governmental burden," he said, "or the government should step in and otherwise exercise its authority for deportation or whatever it wants to do".
The commission, which had refused to exercise its authority, recently reversed itself, saying that it would review the TGP300 pipeline — the Northeast Upgrade is a part of it — but not the Upgrade itself.
However, the letter doesn't go as far as to say that paid-peering agreements of the sort that Netflix has signed with several ISPs, should be banned, but instead that the FCC "should ensure that carriers are not engaged in any market abuses through peering arrangements and be prepared to exercise its authority to prevent any abuse that it uncovers".
If those deviations cannot be corrected by Dec. 12, then it will be necessary for the Florida Legislature to exercise its authority to appoint electors to assure Florida is represented in the Electoral College.
The board's authority is tempered by grant requirements for funder approval before key personnel can be replaced, however, and the Silent Spring Institute board developed additional mechanisms to ensure that it exercises its authority responsibly.
Timothy S. Bishop, a Chicago lawyer representing the agency, told the justices that in exercising its authority over interstate commerce when it passed the law in 1972, Congress did not mean to extend federal jurisdiction to isolated ponds that have no impact on "navigable waters," the term used by the Clean Water Act.
In Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Electric Power Supply Association (14-840), the Supreme Court held that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") properly exercised its authority to oversee wholesale energy prices when it issued an order regulating how much regional grid operators should pay for demand response bids that clear wholesale energy markets.
Later it was constituted special-grade municipality and currently, exercises its authority over an area of 12.58 sqkm out of the town's total area of 64.02 sqkm.
The Pentagon has exercised its authority frequently, dispatching commandos to countries including Pakistan and Somalia.
