Sentence examples for exercise this authority from inspiring English sources

Federal officials say they are currently studying how to exercise this authority.

Nor, say the dissenters, are they prepared to take the easy way out and leave gay weddings to more liberal-minded colleagues".I intend not to exercise this authority [to marry gay couples] and not to delegate it to other municipal officials," insists Javier León de la Riva, the mayor of Valladolid.

They are expected to exercise this authority in a self-sacrificial way ― the way Christians believe Jesus gave his life for the church.

The FDA has the authority to regulate and reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes, and they are currently reviewing how to exercise this authority.

Some of its members were also empowered to act as local judges for minor offenses, although Winthrop was only able to exercise this authority in cases affecting his estate.

Only a few Indian presidents have exercised this authority.

In exercising this authority, she is not understood to be acting as an agent or official of the society.

Although the SSA has the statutory authority to assume responsibility for conducting disability determinations for a state, it has never exercised this authority.

In particular, challenges to the different approaches sketched above suggest that they do not spell out the minimal conditions under which a person's exercise of authority over how she behaves reflects her own power to determine how she exercises this authority.

Yet there is also ample evidence that the capacity for self-government is vulnerable to any number of assaults; an agent's authority over her actions is no guarantee that she has the power to determine how she exercises this authority.

The fact that Secretary Burwell has exercised this authority speaks to the urgency of addressing prediabetes in this country, a condition that has become a national epidemic, especially among America's seniors.