Sentence examples for get authority from from inspiring English sources

There, a split decision held that requiring a private religious institution to get authority from the state to grant religious degrees or call itself a seminary was unconstitutional because the state was expressing a preference for accredited religious education, violating the establishment clause separating church and state.

On whether the intelligence agencies got authority from the government, "that's how [they] normally resolve the problem", Rifkind said.

"We got authority from cabinet to proceed with this project with that budget in October 2007," he said.

It would permit boards to get blanket authority from shareholders to take action against hostile takeovers for a fixed period, say five years, without having to put specific defenses to a shareholder vote.

One believes in a religious authority, because they have been given authority by their superiors, who in turn get their authority from their subordinates.

Several insurance commissioners tried and failed to get such authority from their state legislatures this year.

"It's quite a heavy lift to get spending authority from the State Legislature for anything related to health care reform.

In the Newsnight interview, which has had over 9 million views on YouTube, the comedian said: "I don't get my authority from this pre-existing paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people.

On their view, moral principles are the expression of God's will — they are His commands to us — and they get their authority from their source.

I don't know where I got the authority from, but I must have got it from somewhere or I wouldn't have opened it".

Kirkus gets its authority from its scale, yet readers generally encounter its reviews individually, book by book.