Sentence examples for lacks authority over from inspiring English sources

This is especially true when, as here, the Commission lacks authority over oil dealers.

Mr Sheikh still lacks authority over most of the country.He also has scant control over his armed forces and few sources of revenue.

He lacks authority over a BBC newsroom that is openly speculating whether he can survive the Pollard review into Newsnight's aborted Savile investigation.

Though the Séléka forces came from the largely Muslim north, many of those who joined the group during its voyage south to oust the sitting president were opportunists, bandits and mercenaries.Mr Djotodia lacks authority over the forces that brought him to power.

Last year, however, the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, thet the F.D.A. lacked authority over tobacco.

They lack authority over those two staples of local government, land use and school financing.This hits the fastest-growing parts of the state worst.

The embattled government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, which for years lacked authority over much of the country, was preoccupied with remaining in power.

As she noted in court, she would enter uncharted territory if she were to dismiss the case, as Kasowitz proposed she should, on the grounds that a state court lacked authority over the president.

The exact nature of the grant is uncertain but it probably covered Augustus' imperial provinces, east and west, perhaps lacking authority over the provinces of the Senate.

Nevertheless, Schumacher and his counterpart in the Navy were of the same rank, so each lacked authority over the other, an arrangement that lacked the needed unity of command.

Though the panel lacks authority to seek criminal charges over the misuse of public funds, it also urged county district attorneys in the BART service area and the state attorney general to pursue possible criminal or civil charges over the spending of taxpayer dollars for campaign purposes, Commission Chairwoman Alice Germond said.