Sentence examples for for additional authority from inspiring English sources

He has long lobbied for additional authority and power for the FDA.

Ms. Walter noted that her agency pushed for "additional authority" to crackdown on Wall Street.

The officials asked for additional authority to search for business records, letters and computers in a storage locker in Los Angeles County, which the judge granted.

At his hearing, Mr. Panetta said that if the approved techniques were "not sufficient" to get a detainee to divulge details he was suspected of knowing about an imminent attack, he would ask for "additional authority".

He said repeatedly that if circumstances changed, he would ask for additional authority.

Notwithstanding its initial draft AUMF last February, which died as soon as the document landed on the dais of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's, the administration has been more than willing to prosecute the war under the 2001 AUMF -- without the painstaking worse of asking for additional authority from Congress.

The fourth group of proposed amendments, tabled by Owen, included a proposal for continued Serb armed presence in Krajina and additional authority for Krajina concerning mineral resources and international treaties.

"I have issued an executive order that provides additional authority for responding to certain cyber activity that seeks to interfere with or undermine our election processes and institutions, or those of our allies or partners," Obama said in the statement, released while he was vacationing with his family in Hawaii.

Some commentators have argued that prosecutions of state and local officials under these statutes pose substantial federalism questions, while others argue that the Guarantee Clause provides additional authority for such prosecutions.

He has now asked for, and seems likely to receive, additional authority to govern by decree.

Nor do they consider the likelihood that Congress will approve tax cuts and make at least some of them retroactive to Jan . 1and the probability that the administration will ask Congress for additional spending authority for reconstruction costs in Iraq.