Sentence examples for far-reaching authority from inspiring English sources

The old rules gave the police far-reaching authority to decide what groups or individuals would be granted access.

But the Martin Act allows the attorney general to pursue an especially broad range of financial corruption and gives him far-reaching authority to subpoena documents, compel testimony and conduct civil or criminal investigations in securities-related cases.

But the cat is now out of the bag, and the NCAA's member universities could regret granting it such far-reaching authority if it deploys its new powers capriciously.Moreover, the penalties imposed on PSU are a rather indiscriminate form of collective punishment.

Again, DHS has not requested this new far-reaching authority, and the Department does not want it.

If all IRS employees were suddenly granted indomitable power over American citizens, and granted far-reaching, extrajudicial authority, our allowance of that policy would stand as a political statement.

"The effect of the government's shell game," he said, "is that the statute has been shielded from judicial review, and controversial and far-reaching surveillance authorities have been placed beyond the reach of the Constitution".

He also dreams of a conservation authority as far-reaching as his transport authority is meant to be.

Here was a far-reaching skepticism about authority (either the ancients' or the actual), a compassion toward suffering, a hatred of cruelty that we now imagine as human instinct, though all experience shows us that it must be inculcated.

However, in a sign that the justices are by no means finished with their examination of the limits of congressional authority, the court accepted a new and potentially far-reaching case about federal authority for decision in its next term.

In the eighteenth century, if someone was killed as the result of a duel, the concept gave the authorities far-reaching powers to prosecute.

But the government, heady with recent success, now risks scaring away investors with heavier-handed intervention.On February 11th Indonesia's parliament passed a new trade law giving authorities far-reaching powers to restrict exports and imports.