Sentence examples for individual officials from inspiring English sources

Yet when it comes to granting or refusing entry visas, individual officials do have an enormous amount of discretion.

The Justice Department said Thursday that it did not preclude indicting individual officials involved in the Salt Lake City bid.

The lawsuit — which named the government and individual officials as defendants along with the F.D.A. — does not challenge the F.D.A.'s authority over tobacco.

Although the rules are not as stringent as those in England, individual officials often have wide discretion in interpreting the validity of petitions.

Increasing the pool of officials would allow the league to replace individual officials or entire crews that were not performing well, Goodell said.

"I think they're excited about the opportunity of getting back out there and certainly proving their worth as individual officials and as a profession," Jackson said.

But it would be wrong to single out Summers or any individual official for the Obama administration's image of being lax in pursuing finance's bad actors.

Petition, written instrument directed to some individual, official, legislative body, or court in order to redress a grievance or to request the granting of a favour.

The American notion of enforced equality depends on the Constitution and on the vigor of its enforcement — and implies a confidence, or even a faith, in the law and its enforcement that's stronger than the doubt of an individual official's personal prejudices.

The Griesafault is only the latest of many decisions and legal changes that have revealed what one might call a symptom of "corruption, American-style", in which lobbying and campaign contributions compromise the entire system, even when no individual official is on the take.

There were systemic failures at the state department, but no individual official ignored their duties, it adds.