Sentence examples for legislative charter from inspiring English sources

This was a heady job because the agency had started work without a legislative charter and was running covert operations around the world before it had the slightest legal authority to do so.

The school received a legislative charter as a Mason school in 1852, becoming the Auburn Masonic Female College.

Residents of the town obtained a legislative charter in March 1850 for the Cincinnati, Lebanon and Xenia Railroad (CL&X), which would extend from Cincinnati northeast through Lebanon to Xenia.

Before any prospective nominee for DNI agrees to take the job, he or she should get a firm commitment from the President to provide the political backing for budget and personnel authority lacking in the legislative charter.

Some of New York's largest museums, including the Met, operate under legislative charters and are not governed by the regulations.

Because many programs have permanent authorization rather than yearly appropriations, their legislative charters must be reconciled with overall budget targets - for example, by adjusting the rules for Medicare or by imposing new fees and taxes.

City status in Ireland is decided by legislative or royal charter.

Before Lincoln was elected president, in 1854 he was retained as a lawyer to prepare a state legislative proposal to charter a homeopathic medical college in Chicago.

Along with high-stakes testing and tenure changes, legislative efforts to expand charter schools are among the most contentious issues in education circles.

Because of a disagreement over charter schools, legislative leaders in Albany are in danger — once again — of letting hundreds of millions of federal dollars slip through their fingers.

Both would allow more charters, but the legislative proposal would also place significant new restrictions on them, drawing protests from the mayor and charter school advocates.