Sentence examples for history authorities from inspiring English sources

A combination of wildfires raging north of San Francisco, which already has consumed an area almost as big as Los Angeles, is now the largest fire in modern California history, authorities said Monday night.

For example, in the biggest financial bust in Medicare history, authorities in May charged 107 doctors, nurses and social workers in seven cities with scams that allegedly billed the insurance program $452 million.

Just weeks after a Las Vegas man survived the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, authorities say he was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Nevada.

NEW YORK, June 10 (Reuters) - The hunt for two inmates who escaped from a New York maximum security prison expanded to neighboring Vermont on Wednesday as the pair set a record for the longest jailbreak in New York history, authorities said.

Fragile national identity gives way to nationalism; so, across history, authority gives way to authoritarianism.

Mark Rothenberg, the library's Long Island history authority, is writing a book chronicling the book repository's past.

In most of human history authority has been derived from one of two methods, or often a combination of both: Convincing people that you are tapped into the mind of the Divine, or demonstrating for them the strength of your armies.

For the first time in the island state's history, the authorities shut down a merchant bank.

His history with authorities dated back years, having once been prosecuted for sending offensive letters to families of Australian troops killed in Afghanistan.

The investigation, which stretched across seven states, from Iowa to Texas, resulted in the largest dog-fighting raid in United States history, the authorities said.

Two weeks into the biggest manhunt in history, federal authorities have released several people, even as they continue to detain more potential suspects and witnesses for questioning.