Sentence examples for most direct authority from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama also moved to address one of the weaknesses exposed by the spill, lax oversight from the agency with the most direct authority to regulate offshore drilling, the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service.

Evidence of the mining itself isn't enough — the courts that have the most direct legal authority over this issue require material that implicates the special interests involved, which is exceedingly difficult to trace.

"The commander in chief now undertook the most direct assertion of presidential authority over the U.S. military since President Truman fired General MacArthur in 1951," Alter writes.

Any rally, particularly if it is attended by the opposition leaders, would be the most direct challenge to his authority.

It was the most direct challenge to the party's authority in the history of the People's Republic: and in the end, the Communists crushed it with great brutality.

At the same time a glance around public life in 2014 is enough to demonstrate that most of the old sources of direct authority have been emasculated, either by that tantalising abstract democracy, or by the diffusion of power into oligarchy, or merely by way of the administrative complexity by which nearly all contemporary life is waylaid.

I'm tired of being told that the simplest and most direct reading of the Biblical text teaches that men are in authority over women, and any other reading twists the text.

In addition to the national police and the gendarmerie — a branch of the French armed forces — most cities and medium-size French towns have a municipal police force, which is under the direct authority of the mayor.

In my experience, some of the everyday tough problems most in need of insight are about people: How do you influence other people when you don't have direct authority over them?

The most direct of these is trade.

Rios took the most direct responsibility.