Sentence examples for officials authority from inspiring English sources

He also criticized the commission's failure to give California officials authority over the Independent System Operator, something Mr. Davis has agitated for.

President Jimmy Carter strengthened that order with a 1977 addendum that gave the interior secretary and other responsible officials authority to ban such vehicles completely from sensitive lands.

State Senator Thomas Kean Jr. got a step closer to striking a small blow against unwieldy bureaucracy last week when the Senate Transportation Committee passed a bill that would grant local officials authority over traffic signs on local roads.

On Oct. 12, the stagehands voted unanimously to give union officials authority to call a strike; four days later, the league announced it was imposing parts of its final offer on the stagehands, and the scene was set.

Fasces, insignia of official authority in ancient Rome.

It's not an abuse of official authority.

They were private writings without official authority and with very disparate content.

It is easier, after all, to command when you have the official authority to do so.

The witnessing council, which wrote the report, has no official authority.

To go to trial: Silvio Berlusconi, on charges, which he denies, of juvenile prostitution and abusing his official authority.

And this is despite the fact that women political representatives have no official authority over the police.