Sentence examples for responsibility to authorize from inspiring English sources

In the event of nuclear war, the Zampolit officers were said to share with the captain the responsibility to authorize the launchings of the nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles from the steel tubes welded into the belly of the Soviet "boomers".

There is a practical, near-term circuit breaker we can put in between a U.S. president and preemptive nuclear war: We can require that the U.S. Congress fulfill its constitutional responsibility to authorize such a war before it begins.

National Directorate for Agrarian Services DNSAA) through its Department for Hydraulic Engineering (DEH) assumes the responsibility to authorize irrigation schemes and replaces since 2012 the National Directorate for Agricultural Hydraulics (DNHA)–itself replacing the State Secretary for Agricultural Hydraulics (SEHA) created in 1995.

Sixteen months ago, in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council, with no dissenting voices, and expressly invoking the principle of the responsibility to protect, authorized the use of 'all necessary measures' to protect civilians at imminent risk of massacre in Benghazi and elsewhere in Gaddafi's Libya.

She portrayed the war as a choice of President George W. Bush's, and not an imperative, while also taking responsibility for her own vote in 2002 to authorize the use of force.

Senator Lieberman There is no more fateful, important or difficult responsibility that the Constitution gives members of Congress than to decide when, whether and how to authorize the president as commander in chief to go to war.

After eight years in the minority, Senate Republicans suddenly find themselves with primary responsibility for solving both problems, which are likely to require uncomfortable votes to raise revenue and to authorize an increase in the nearly $18 trillion federal debt.

European leaders decided last month to authorize the European Financial Stability Facility — the European Union's bailout fund — to buy bonds in open markets, relieving the E.C.B. of that responsibility.

European leaders decided last month to authorize the European Financial Stability Facility — the European Union's bailout fund — to buy bonds in open markets, relieving the central bank of that responsibility.

I would be very concerned... if we were to authorize a federal license that offers the benefits of the national bank charter, including preemption, without any of the safeguards or responsibilities that apply to banks and thrifts.

Obama's request to Congress last week to authorize military operations against Islamic State set relatively few hard limits for him or his successor but appears designed to force lawmakers to shoulder more of the responsibility for a lengthy conflict.