Sentence examples for it has authority from inspiring English sources

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is of Puerto Rican descent, said Puerto Rico's argument went too far and pressed its lawyer for a simpler argument for why it has authority of its own.

What Westminster has made, it has authority to unmake.

He accused Vedanta of releasing more acid than it has authority for.

Well, the U.S. court has authority over Sea Shepherd U.S.A., and it has authority over me, as a U.S. citizen, but it doesn't have authority over the ships.

Kessler strongly condemned the practice, and said that President Obama — who has himself criticized it — has authority to halt it, and should.

It is also the most powerful government agency; it has authority over all other ministries and can direct their activities at will.

Clearly, the Farley did not belong to the Navy or to the park, and yet its crew was acting as if it had authority to police the area.

Missouri does not require health insurers to file rate increases with the state, nor does it have authority to approve or disapprove increases.

But the commission said that under the age discrimination act it had authority to make "reasonable exemptions" to the law in the public interest.

The agency said it had authority to approve vaccines only for animal health, and E. coli did not make cattle sick.

In Securus's case, it had abstracted things one step further, allowing law enforcement full access when it said it had authority to do so, but apparently without checking, AT&T wrote in its own letter to Sen. Wyden.