Sentence examples for standing authority from inspiring English sources
Ours isn't really "emergency money" the way Fema's is, because we don't have that standing authority.
The military, for instance, does not have standing authority to conduct any cyber action in self-defense outside its networks that could be construed as a "use of force" — say, shutting down a server in another country — without presidential permission.
In my head, this is the chronology of money post-storm: Fema's money is the first in after a natural disaster – they have a standing authority to come in and quickly fund things as needed.
The outposts were selected for urgent, risky attacks because intelligence agencies had reported that the field commanders had operational control of those weapons, and might have been given standing authority by Saddam Hussein to use them even if he were killed or could no longer communicate his orders.
One implication, Geithner argues, is that we ought to give more standing authority to technocrats to act in a crisis, so that fewer emergency decisions have to go through the political wringer.
It has standing authority to receive funding it needs from the Treasury.].
But notice the model: the influential intellectual, even as a specific intellectual, taking an individualist stance against the state in a truth-telling way at personal risk, to be sure, but often alone standing against authority.
In fact, history and the Bible agree, describing Jesus distinctly as a figure standing against authority.
Restoring the agency's long-standing authority over broadband telecommunications is much simpler than it appears.
Ms. Kagan pointed to the Constitution's "necessary and proper" clause as granting Congress the power to pass the law, though the clause is not ordinarily thought of as a source of free-standing authority.
Mr. Dodd, who has been critical of the Fed's failures to spot problems that contributed to the financial crisis, has proposed legislation stripping the central bank of its long-standing authority to regulate banks.
