Sentence examples for exercise that authority from inspiring English sources

For the sake of the one million children who attend the city's public schools, it should exercise that authority.

John McLaughlin, George Tenet's former deputy and the acting director as of this week, should exercise that authority.

"The Obama administration has the authority to stop this merger, and it should exercise that authority," Sanders said.

Unlike my sister the teacher or my brother the lawyer, I take prisoners, and to exercise that authority is to invoke a profound social trust.

He not only claims the authority of the people for his reforms; he also proposes new institutions through which they can exercise that authority more effectively.

Only two justices, Lady Hale, deputy president of the court, and Lord Kerr, said they would exercise that authority in this case.

He later exercised that authority to release one of the journalists, Peter Greste, an Australian.

And it has never been doubted that under our constitutional traditions trial in accordance with the Constitution is the proper mode by which government exercises that authority.

Cities and counties have the authority to release prisoners who are eligible for release, and Arlington and Chesterfield are exercising that authority.

Lawmakers later gave the Pentagon the power to waive most of those restrictions on a case-by-case basis, but the Obama administration has not exercised that authority.

Congress has consistently exercised that authority to design citizenship policies, and federal courts have consistently supported this: Native Americans born within tribes, sometimes also termed "domestic dependent nations," were found not to possess birthright citizenship in the 1884 Supreme Court holding in Elk v. Wilkins.