Sentence examples for power to authorize from inspiring English sources

He confirmed that under existing authorities, only the president had the power to authorize an American-directed cyberattack.

The Legislature later reserved to itself the power to authorize the certificate, prompting the suit.

But for now, the mayor still has the power to authorize a parade.

Florida that Congress lacked the constitutional power to authorize suits by Indian tribes against the states.

Congress, for its part, has been unwilling or unable to defend its constitutional and statutory power to authorize a war.

It was, rather, whether Congress had the constitutional power to authorize the practice at all for federal prisoners.

The jurisdictional mess over homeland security and intelligence could have been ended years ago by creating joint panels or House and Senate committees with combined powers to authorize and appropriate funding.

"She can dismiss the acting police chief, Howard Jordan, and use her mayoral powers to authorize Occupy Oakland to protest again without harassment.

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The Legislature used its power to not authorize a grant won by the county to expand two health centers and build a third.

Yoo was right when he wrote in the Wall Street Journal on March 25 that Obama "flip-flopped" when the then-senator said in 2007 that presidents lacked the constitutional power "to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation," but then apparently did so when he ordered military action against Libya on March 19.