Sentence examples for has primary authority from inspiring English sources

The F.A.A. has primary authority to regulate and certify the safety of Boeing aircraft and, typically, its decisions are validated by other countries with few changes.

But the Treasury secretary, who has primary authority on economic and financial issues in the cabinet, should be at every meeting to advise on how economic and security issues intersect, and to ensure that the United States is using its economic and financial strength in the most effective way.

This type of governance structure refers to the fact that the central government has primary authority in managing the selection, appointment, dismissal, and evaluation of government officials, and administrative authority is therefore allocated to the local government so that they can directly govern enterprises and citizens.

Likewise, the Federal Highway Administration has primary authority over traffic noise yet this agency's core mission is to build, maintain, and upgrade the nation's road system.

The Fed and two Treasury Department agencies, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision, have primary authority to regulate banks.

The President-elect's pick to head the E.P.A., the Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, has argued before Congress that the agency "was never intended to be our nation's frontline environmental regulator," and that the states should have primary authority.

Moreover, he concurs, though mothers have primary authority over children in the state of nature where parents are roughly equal, fathers typically acquire supremacy through marriage pacts, which may be dictated by civil laws.

"This is a do-nothing secretarial order: the public already has the right to hunt and fish on America's public lands and it is the states – not the feds – that have primary authority to regulate hunting and fishing in these areas," Matt Lee-asenior a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, said in an emailed statement.

(Though the Saudis had primary legal authority, the F.B.I. is charged with investigating the deaths of Americans overseas).

The federal government has primary jurisdiction to regulate railroad use and therefore has the most authority to mitigate the potential for tragic consequences associated with oil train accidents.

The F.A.A. has the primary authority to regulate and certify the safety of Boeing aircraft and, typically, its decisions are validated by other countries with few changes.