ITherethe SEC's responsisility to ensurecentt that Delaware court's decision is not used to subvert the SEC's stated mission and goals.
The report shows how the Fed refused to exert its authority on predatory lending.
The F.D.A. has been working since 2011 to draft new regulations to exert its authority over nontraditional tobacco products, potentially including electronic cigarettes.
Mary Rice, executive director of the Environmental Investigation Agency, who was at the protest yesterday, said China must exert its authority and ban the ivory trade.
What these mayors didn't say, however, was how their municipalities would be able to prevent the federal government from exerting its authority — and what they mean by the term "sanctuary city".
Even today, in our high-tech, accountability-obsessed and, supposedly at least, patient-empowered times, the oldest of all relations between patient and physician — that of supplicant to shaman — continues to exert its authority.
He also warned that fighting would get bloodier in the coming months, as more NATO and American forces arrived in areas where the Afghan government had been unable to exert its authority, such as the lawless Helmand Province.
Equally familiar is the power of "commanders", heads of armed militia groups who have fought in conflicts but have not been disarmed, either for political expediency or because of the state's inability to exert its authority.
Every year Chinese courts order the execution of some 10,000 prisoners so the highly profitable market for organ transplants is likely to continue, particularly in outlying provinces where central government has difficulty exerting its authority.
That, in particular, does not bode well for the hope that the central government will be able to exert its authority in those southern and ethnic Pashtun areas after the official end of the American combat mission next year.
The case has exposed divisions between members of the country's secular establishment, including the military and its supporters in political, intellectual and media circles, and the governing party of religious conservatives, which has sought to exert its authority since taking power.
