Sentence examples for remits from inspiring English sources

Most of UKFC's functions were moved to the BFI, making it difficult for the latter to focus effectively on its historical remits of archiving, education, publishing and exhibition.

Western Union, a service that remits cash, takes another painful cut whenever they send money home.Aside from poverty, the other consequence of being sin papeles is having to live "in the shadows".

Hillary Clinton's involvement, alongside her treasury counterpart, Timothy Geithner, raises the status of America's participation, which, the Americans hope, will encourage more progress on issues especially climate change that straddled the remits of the forum's precursors.On the global economy, the two sides are already broadly in agreement.

One of the UN court's remits is reconciliation.

Government agencies struggle to operate beyond their traditional remits.

After handing out most of the top jobs to his coalition partners, he has had to fiddle with existing departments to create new ministries, some with rather vague remits, for some of his Likud colleagues.

Since when has a major equivalent museum (National Gallery, Louvre or Prado) had as its remit the requirement to be "fun" (Tate Britain needs to put the fun into art, 2 April)?

"It is within my remit to refer to government any emerging issue that may require further regulation.

It is surely within PEN's remit to decide if Charlie Hebdo's commitment to the images (racist or not) constitutes courage.

The Liberal Democrats passed a motion at conference calling on the government to "expand the bank's scale and remit as fast as possible, including relaxing the restriction on its ability to borrow before total public sector debt begins to fall".

The modern slavery bill provides an opportunity to expand the GLA's remit and resources so that it can start to reach the workers we know are exploited all around us, in factories, construction sites and care homes.