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to deputize
verb
To make (someone) a deputy; to officially empower.
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"We need to deputize pediatricians and family practitioners, and make them our partners".
Then he sought to deputize his police force to crack down on illegal immigrants.
Green's ability to deputize at center is their ace in the hole.
His first move last fall was to try to "deputize" county police officers as federal immigration agents.
As he lumbers from the church to the saloon trying to deputize the townsmen, he looks pathetic rather than brave.
These tend to be the states passing punitive laws to deputize traffic cops, E.R. nurses and utility workers as immigration enforcers.
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Florida senator Marco Rubio told reporters on Tuesday that the government should not force Davis to sign same-sex marriage licenses and allow her to instead deputize someone else to sign on her behalf.
"If she personally doesn't want to sign it, then she should allow someone to be deputized to sign on her behalf who doesn't have that objection".
The case stretched the office's resources so thin that state prosecutors had to be deputized to handle other federal cases.
The House of Representatives is expected to pass a bill that would create a two-year test program allowing 2% of the pilot work force to be deputized to carry a gun.
The impact is to basically deputize individuals with no training in law enforcement and then give them legal standing to use those guns with the most threadbare of rationales.
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