Sentence examples for of its authority from inspiring English sources
It forfeited much of its authority and reputation last year, when a previous team of commissioners resigned amid allegations of nepotism and petty corruption.
Like a church, it's jealous of its authority and stocked with true believers.
It stripped the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to regulate a drilling process called hydraulic fracturing.
The Instrument proved unsatisfactory to both radicals and Royalists, and Parliament refused to accept it as the basis of its authority.
And it underscores the way in which the executive branch tends to push the limits of its authority and often exceeds it.
(Its detractors referred to it as "Big MAC," because of its authority to overrule city spending decisions).
The application provides not only the binary decision whether the discussant is or is not the authority, but also it provides a precise numeric value of its authority.
Hoeven's amendment would strip the State Department of its authority to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, handing it instead to Congress.
In a sense, it's hard to fault Congress for the historic surrender of its authority during the Bush years.
The government lost a lot of its authority".
One is loss of its authority to collect taxes.
