Sentence examples for law authorising from inspiring English sources

Indeed, he has often criticised the communists, especially for a recent law authorising the use of force against Taiwan if it formally declares independence from China.

The World Bank has earmarked $780m for Turkey's banking industry, but will not start disbursements until the government adopts a law authorising their sale.

Other bonds are backed by dedicated revenue such as sales tax and power bills and by a law authorising the government to pay interest ahead of other claims.

In 1996 they decided to stop paying federal income taxes because, they said, they saw no law authorising such an imposition.

Denmark introduced a law authorising the confiscation of jewellery and cash from asylum seekers to pay for their care, undeterred by UN warnings against fuelling "fear and xenophobia".

Mr Chen at first denounced Mr Lien's plans, arguing that the trip was too soon after China's adoption in March of an anti-secession law authorising the use of force against Taiwan should it assert its independence.

To encourage small employers to insure their staff, the law authorised special business exchanges where firms could shop for health plans.

There was an attempt to right perceived wrongs in 1973, when Bangladeshi law authorised a war crimes tribunal – but the 1975 assassination of Bangladesh's first Prime Minister, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, stopped prosecutions in their tracks.

This law authorises a physician to prescribe a lethal dosage of drug, usually a short acting barbiturate, to a competent, requesting patient for the purposes of self administration.

See articleAs part of its programme to "update" its communist economy, Cuba's government published laws authorising workers to form co-operatives in construction, transport and other industries.

The UK would not be "cowed" by terrorists, he said, confirming proposed new counter-terrorism laws authorising the police to confiscate the passports of UK citizens who have been fighting in Syria and Iraq would be published before the end of the year.