Sentence examples for should have authority from inspiring English sources

But if we do not live under a religious covenant, then the question of what it is that should have authority over us is indeed thrown open.

"We're not interested in giving F.D.A. authority to make up new advertising laws," he added, "though we think they should have authority over Congressionally codified master settlement rules".

Residents are hoping that the federal government intervenes to save the plant (considered unlikely) or that someone files a lawsuit to determine that the federal government, not the state, should have authority over it (a possibility).

The most contentious issues are whether the consumer agency will be able to enforce rules on its own, or whether banking regulators should have authority to make the final decisions.

"What a strange transgressive movement our new social sciences are," Rieff writes, "with their repeated statements that we do not know what to do, and that we do not know what it is that should have authority over us.

The FDIC has locked horns with other agencies over who should be the new systemic-risk regulator and who should have authority to wind down failing non-banks.The repayments will increase available TARP funds to $170 billion, reducing the likelihood of having to ask Congress for more money.

What was the effect too, on this boy, of feeling that he wielded such power over an adult in his life who should have had authority over him?

Since 2009, China has ordered that the necessary paperwork be withheld, arguing that US regulators should not have authority in China.

It's our faceless bureaucrat in London (or Prague or The Hague), not some Eurocrat who should not have authority over our lives and laws.

Cruz has a simple, fundamental message: The federal government should not have authority over us.

Science should not have authority over the market, and so the science of global warming and evolution must be denied.