Sentence examples for given its authority from inspiring English sources

Rather, it's given its authority purely through code.

The Court of Star Chamber, once thought to have been given its authority by a statute of 1487, is now believed to have evolved from the royal council, which began acting as a judicial committee in the early 16th century.

By using tax money for a religious program that gave special privileges to inmates who embraced evangelical Christianity, the state had established a congregation and given its leaders "authority to control the spiritual, emotional, and physical lives of hundreds of Iowa inmates," the judge said.

The program, however, does not offer sufficient protection to human health, nor should it be expected to do so, given its limited legal authority, expertise, and financial capacity.

And then there will be a predictable clamor among the wounded about the WTO being some kind of a "secret court" (forget that we ratified the treaty giving it its authority) and about how the "old" Europeans are unfairly victimizing innocent American orange growers and chopper manufacturers (leaving aside what we did to invite this action).

But the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's critics are skeptical of giving the organization new authority, given its spotty record of policing Wall Street in the lead up to the financial crisis.

The Atlanta-based carrier has even given its gate agents the authority to award a passenger an iPad as compensation for giving up a seat.

The Justice Department, which brought the case, had argued that Microsoft's status as a company based in the United States gave it authority to obtain its data, even if the data was stored outside the country.

The Bangladesh court has given its country's cricket authorities four weeks to explain why the tour was planned despite its existing concerns.

It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.

Ethiopia has also recently launched a new database in partnership with India to help battle trade misinvoicing, and Kenya just gave its revenue authority new powers to go after multinationals avoiding tax.