They favor investing authority in the level of government closest to the people (locales and states), which they believe is most responsive and governs best.
Mr. Rockefeller said Congress would have to "break some china around here" and "invest authority in the national intelligence director for budget and for personnel and the rest of it".
At the end of the 18th century, the Sthanakavasi underwent a schism when Acharya Bhikshu founded the Terapanthi ("Following the 13 Tenets") sect, which claims to have avoided heresy and laxity throughout its history by investing authority in a single teacher.
Yesterday's 90-minute ceremony was a more formal affair, a blend of solemn ritual and canon law to invest authority in the new archbishop, but it was full of pageantry and music, celebrated with vespers, a service of evening prayers, choral psalms and scriptural readings, unfolding as the day waned.
Among the chief reasons is that it escapes both fundamentalism and reductionism -- the fundamentalism that would invest authority once-and-for-all in a given text and the reductionism that understands religion only when translated into terms of social solidarity or psychological healing.
In this crisis, Mr. Greenspan, as always, plays the role of economic sage to a Congress that invests considerable authority in him.
"The constitution invests exclusive authority in the federal government". Federal law, he said, pre-empts such state laws, which contradict and complicate Washington's efforts at a comprehensive policy on immigration.
96, may be repeated here, as applicable to accounts which have been finally acted upon by a head of department, invested with authority in the premises.
Kerry invested his authority in the ambitious attempt to relaunch moribund Middle East diplomacy last year and persuaded Netanyahu and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to resume negotiations.
With the military's withdrawal from politics and several revisions of the constitution, Portugal adopted what could be called a semipresidential system, which limited the president's powers by investing significant authority in the prime minister.
