Sentence examples for handover of authority from inspiring English sources

British forces heralded the redeployment as a handover of authority.

Some are claiming that the United States handover of authority in Iraq two days early is a clever political stroke.

Alongside this heavily constrained handover of authority comes a great claw-back of central funds and a showering of new responsibilities.

Though the United States has sought to encourage a negotiated handover of authority to a transitional government, Mr. Assad's determination to cling to power has proved to be a major, and so far insurmountable, impediment.

The prospect that the generals will still hold most power even after their nominal handover of authority to civilians by July 1 has deepened the gloom, leaving some feeling the vote was essentially meaningless.

During this period, Ghani was in charge of preparing Afghanistan for the withdrawal of nato forces and the handover of military authority to the Afghan Army by the end of 2014.

The government says the controversial change has been made in order to speed up the process of academy conversion by avoiding time-consuming negotiations over land, but critics are concerned it represents a major handover of local authority land worth billions of pounds.

Mr. Rhodes noted, for example, that shortly after the Koran burning and the retaliation, in which several Americans were killed, the two countries reached an agreement on the transfer of detainees to Afghan control over the next few months, an effort to show "that we are serious about a steady handover of all authority".

The movement aimed at forcing Yingluck's resignation and the handover of governing authority to an appointed "people's council" began in November as a massive protest against her government's ill-considered amnesty bill, which would have allowed Thaksin to return from exile without the threat of the two-year jail term he was handed on the corruption charges.

So when British authorities effected the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese authorities in 1997, CCP officials knew that a rapidly democratizing Taiwan was watching closely.

They already know both Spanta and Ghani, who has a track record of success in difficult talks and helped secure a long-awaited deal for the handover of Bagram prison from US authorities.