Sentence examples for search authority from inspiring English sources

Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which Congress passed after 9/11, governed the executive branch's search authority.

The proposals Mr. Ashcroft described included measures that would give law enforcement officials expanded electronic surveillance powers, added search authority and new powers to seize assets of suspected terrorists.

Far inland, hastily erected checkpoints known as Functional Equivalents of the Border and carrying court-sanctioned search authority use traffic cones to funnel vehicles into single lanes for easier surveillance.

Operations to recover the wreckage are now being planned by Basarnas, the Indonesian search authority.

Most border searches may be conducted entirely at random, without any level of suspicion, pursuant to U.S. Customs and Border Protection plenary search authority.

After a search, authorities arrested the guards in Ingushetia, near Chechnya.

The US navy said later that Dean's comments had been "speculative and premature" but the statement by Australian search authorities did not address these new doubts.

The satellite data, in contrast, is regarded by search authorities as sound, and will form the basis for the continuing search – the new area follows the arc of the projected southern flight path.

"The joint agency co-ordination centre can advise that no signs of aircraft debris have been found by the autonomous underwater vehicle since it joined the search effort," search authorities said.

During the search, authorities allegedly seized a laptop.

During the preliminary search, authorities found two adults in the back room of the structure.