Sentence examples for invoke its authority from inspiring English sources

We invoke its authority when we agree with it, and dispute its authority when we don't.

Taken together, the two laws allowed the Justice Department to invoke its authority over interstate communications as a means of blocking all Internet gambling.

Ironically, EPA could deliver conservationists one of their biggest wins this term: A coalition of tribes, fishing operators and environmentalists are pushing agency officials to invoke its authority under the Clean Water Act to block the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed.

One way around that is for MSHA to invoke its authority under federal law to conduct the investigation through a public hearing.

The agency said it was invoking its authority under the Clean Water Act to rescind the mine's permit from the Army Corps of Engineers, an action it had taken only twice in 40 years and never for a coal mine.

Invoking its authority under civil rights law, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Wednesday that it reached an agreement with Alabama officials to expand access to driver's license services in several counties where field offices were shuttered last year.

The federal Department of Energy has rarely invoked its authority to take control of energy supply or transmission during an emergency.

Though the deal is between two American companies, the European Commission has frequently invoked its authority to challenge transactions in which the merging companies have significant operations in Europe.

Further, the Congress that enacted the Voting Rights Act in 1965 invoked its authority under two Reconstruction-era amendments that protect fundamental rights of citizenship: equal protection (the 14th) and the right to vote (the 15th).

For years, the E.P.A. has invoked its authority under the Clean Water Act to issue so-called compliance orders declaring a site to be a wetland and requiring owners to stop construction or to restore the land.

On Tuesday, under a new chairman, the Federal Reserve will try to make up for lost ground by proposing new restrictions on subprime mortgages, invoking its authority under the 13-year-old Home Ownership Equity and Protection Act.