Sentence examples for rule authority from inspiring English sources

The very fact of the usage of a rule by a community for years or centuries is what lends that rule authority and legitimacy.

The law was one of the first to be passed by the newly empowered District of Columbia in 1973, after it received home rule authority from Congress, where the gun lobby remains strong.

Rosdeitcher told me that before the trial began he wasn't convinced that there were many factual issues in dispute; as he saw it, the living-wage controversy was about the law and, in particular, whether Santa Fe had a legal "home rule" authority, under the provisions of the New Mexico constitution, to set wages, even for private industry.

But they should go a step further, he said, and consider adopting "a conservation area overlay ordinance," which the study defines as "a useful tool that allows towns, through home rule authority, to influence patterns of development in a way that minimizes impacts to wildlife and habitats".

In February 2011, a Cook County Deputy State's Attorney wrote an advisory opinion that the County Board lacked the home rule authority to limit campaign contributions to the Assessor and that state campaign finance law prevails.

The suspension of the home rule authorities raised worries that the I.R.A. would respond by retreating from disarmament discussions that are central to any settlement.

The authors explore what gives rules authority, when and how knowledge becomes relevant (or irrelevant) to policy, and what happens when different actors have conflicting knowledge claims.

The capital's newly empowered City Council enacted the ordinance in 1976 as one of its first measures after receiving home-rule authority from Congress.

In 1958 a constitutional amendment authorized Oregon's 36 counties to adopt home-rule charters, and in 1973 a state law granted all counties the power to exercise broad home-rule authority.

Behaviours are controlled by the beliefs, norms, values, and assumptions rather than being restrained by formal rules, authority, and the norms of rational behaviour.

Acas, the official arbitration service, recommends that policies be drawn up in consultation with employees or trade union representatives to give the rules authority and legitimacy.