Sentence examples for extra authority. from inspiring English sources

To his right loom perhaps 60 hardline Republicans wary of granting him extra authority on anything.

The new IPCC report adds considerable extra authority and credibility to that drumbeat.

It gave extra authority to his more dubious pronouncements on matters related and unrelated to monetary policy.

Because of that extra authority, government officials said, the mortgage provider is supposed to do everything it can to assure the mortgages are being given to creditworthy borrowers who can pay back the money.

I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite, and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs.

The assumption of wartime duties gives the president extra authority under the constitution, and this is central to Bush's defence against the charge that he trampled traditional American values and freedoms in pursuit of homeland security.

Gov. Marc Racicot said the money meant he would not have to call the Legislature into special session to provide extra funding authority, as he had planned.

The decision of Senator James Jeffords of Vermont to leave the G.O.P. has provided extra-partisan authority for that critique.

Diplomats and ex-generals raged against US selfishness in leaving Pakistan to sort out the post-Soviet mess in Afghanistan; journalists and NGO workers described in anguished tones how the CIA-sponsored jihad strangled Pakistan's democracy, endowing the military intelligence establishment with a sinister extra-constitutional authority.

"A shift to a Nation based on extra-constitutional authority is prohibited, as well as ill-advised". The ruling in Oregon follows a separate finding on Sept. 6 by a federal judge in New York, who struck down provisions allowing the FBI to obtain e-mail and telephone data from private companies without a court-issued warrant.

For Hume and Burke this is a customary framework; for religious thinkers such as Cardinal Newman it is fideistic, appealing to the extra-rational authority of religious doctrine.