Sentence examples for longstanding authority from inspiring English sources

At the same time, Ms. Norton disavowed her department's longstanding authority to recommend new areas for wilderness protection.

The suit is a direct challenge to California's longstanding authority to set emission standards tougher than the federal government's.

At the same time, Ms. Norton disavowed her department's longstanding authority to identify, study and recommend new areas for wilderness protection.

As part of the deal, Ms. Norton also renounced her department's longstanding authority to recommend vulnerable public lands of special beauty for permanent wilderness protection, thus sparing them from oil-and-gas drilling and other forms of commercial development.

An earlier version of the rider would have stripped California of its longstanding authority to set its own more stringent clean air laws, including new rules regulating smaller engines, like those made by Briggs & Stratton.

But the initiative was crushed by Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, who said that one cannot have dialogue in a church where all matters are settled by longstanding authority.

Treasury Department health policy adviser Mark Iwry told the Ways and Means Committee that the administration's one-year delay of the requirement for larger employers to offer coverage was in keeping with the agency's longstanding legal authority to smooth the implementation of complicated new tax laws.

But she largely sided with arguments in a lawsuit by the Obama administration that the law, rather than closely hewing to existing federal statutes, as its supporters have claimed, interferes with longstanding federal authority over immigration and could lead to harassment of citizens and legal immigrants.

More than 70 members of the club had arrived at the catering hall to confront the Hells Angels in the latest chapter in a longstanding rivalry, the authorities said.

The Giuliani administration attributes this to what it considers the authority's longstanding favoritism toward New Jersey.

The rioting has its roots in longstanding tensions between the authorities in Ferguson, who are largely white, and the town's population, which is predominantly black.