Sentence examples for explicit authority from from inspiring English sources

Kim Holland, the Oklahoma insurance commissioner, said, "We will have to seek explicit authority from our State Legislature to make sure we can adequately enforce all the new provisions of federal law".

In his last term in Congress, Mr. Owens was one of 45 Democrats to sue President George Bush to prevent him from taking offensive action in the Persian Gulf without obtaining a Congressional declaration of war "or other explicit authority from the Congress".

Spokesmen for the United States command say they have explicit authority from Dr. Allawi to enter the cemetery, where they claim to have killed more than 360 rebel fighters, and to advance on the shrine itself, if that proves necessary to dislodge the rebels.

and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) marks the strongest demand yet from the left that Obama request explicit authority for the fight.

Though no provision in the State Constitution grants explicit authority for the Legislature to expel its own members, state law does.

Moreover, Silverman said, "the E.P.A. has explicit authority to regulate emissions from rebuilt diesel engines".

The amendment was in clear conflict with a landmark 2007 Supreme Court decision giving the agency explicit authority to regulate such gases from vehicles and implicit authority to regulate them from other sources.

Exactly 100 years ago, Secretary of State Philander Knox certified that the 16th Amendment - granting Congress the explicit authority to levy a tax on income "from whatever source derived" - had, in fact, won approval from 36 states (the magic number in those days).

On the other hand he wanted to avoid acting unilaterally and invading a country without the explicit authority of the UN and clear legal approval from the attorney.

The Senate version of the drilling reform bill does not specifically ban BP from future leases, but it grants regulators explicit authority to deny leases to companies with safety or environmental problems.

Although they have no explicit authority to block a new reactor, local officials can withhold permits to use the water from a river for cooling, for example, or refuse to co-operate on emergency planning.