Sentence examples for have considerable authority from inspiring English sources

The reservation agent at the front desk of a small hotel may, in fact, have considerable authority, and that can result in a perk on a slow day.

Explicit goals are set for each year, month and day of each class, and principals have considerable authority to redirect and even remove teachers who aren't meeting those goals.

MEPs have considerable authority to change the way citizens live, work and travel, but do not (yet) possess the legitimacy which can only flow from a sense of familiarity and trust on the part of the voters.

Unlike most other judicial nomination battles during the Bush presidency, Mr. Holmes is not a candidate for the appellate bench, the level just below the Supreme Court where judges have considerable authority to influence the law.

The new director will oversee agencies with combined budgets of more than $40 billion, and Bush made clear that Negroponte would have considerable authority over setting those budgets and other matters.

Local municipalities thus have considerable authority in the licensing and regulating of alcohol-related businesses.

(Here as at many universities, the faculty has considerable authority in hiring decisions).

The President has considerable authority to screen immigrants at the back end of the system through enforcement decisions, but minimal control over screening at the front end, before immigrants enter the United States.

David Paterson, a Democrat from upper Manhattan, is the Minority Leader of the State Senate, which sounds like a position that has considerable authority but, because of the way the Legislature is organized, has very little.

So far as criminal law was concerned, such a precedent had considerable authority, of the sort that Pliny, as governor, was looking for in his handling of the Christians of Bithynia-Pontus in 111.

But this delegation has been asymmetric: the President has considerable authority to screen immigrants at the back end of the system through its enforcement decisions, but little control over screening at the front end, before immigrants enter the United States.