Sentence examples for exercising its authority from inspiring English sources
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.
The only question we need decide is whether Congress, exercising its authority under Art.
Instead, Trump threatens an emergency to punish another branch of the government for constitutionally exercising its authority.
In practice little policing is possible, thanks to the impasse.But it is not just the FEC that has been feeble about exercising its authority.
In exercising its authority under this subsection, the Commission shall not be required to comply with the provisions of section 553 of title 5.
In exercising its authority under this paragraph, the Board shall take all reasonable measures to reduce burden and avoid unnecessary duplication of examinations.
21 As Justice REHNQUIST stressed, such extraordinary writs are used in aid of appellate jurisdiction only to confine an inferior court to a lawful exercise of its prescribed authority, or to compel it to exercise its authority when it is its duty to do so.
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.
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.
He has been critical of the way in which FSOC has exercised its authority and accused it of being improperly influenced by politics.
