Sentence examples for hand over authority from inspiring English sources

But the UN mission in Kosovo has been told nothing by its masters in New York and so has no plans to hand over authority.

Administration officials continue to prod Egypt's military to hand over authority to a civilian government.

He was referring to a long-term plan to hand over authority to Afghan officials.

A new President will be announced on June 21st, the generals will hand over authority on the first of July.

"We Shiites will wait until June" -- when the C.P.A. is scheduled to hand over authority for the country to Iraqis.

Yes, they assured everyone, they still planned to hand over authority to a civilian President at the end of the month.

BP also said payouts to people affected by the spill such as fishermen, hoteliers and retailers had dramatically increased since it handed over authority for dispensing funds to a White House appointee.

Six years after Myanmar inaugurated Naypyidaw (pronounced nay-pee-DAW) as its new capital, the city remains austere and often lifeless, a costly monument to military rulers who no longer rule, since the junta handed over authority in March to the country's first civilian government in almost 50 years.

Americans are willing to hand over more authority to government only as they panic about the economy and lose faith in business.

But a key issue in the case the companies charge the attorney general illegally handed over his authority to a self-interested ambulance-chaser could go before the stambulance-chaser could fall.

(Rebus is, to put it mildly, ambivalent about handing over authority).