Sentence examples for took the authority from inspiring English sources

New basalt had to be sourced elsewhere and it took the authority months to approve the new mix.

The problem that Snowden exposed is that the government took the authority it had to do one thing and then used it to do much broader things.

These problems were first highlighted last year during Tropical Storm Irene, when it took the authority nine days to restore power to 523,000 customers.

In 1987, with nothing more than tenacity and a little time on his hands, Mr. Tobet breached them all by himself, doing what few have ever done: he took the authority to court and got his money back.

The fatalities were sudden, and took the authorities by surprise.

It took the authorities the whole of 2009 to catalogue the antiquities.

It took the authorities five months to declare chikungunya a notifiable disease.

It took the authorities more than a year to identify and, finally, deport her.

The hearing took the authorities nearer to closing the books on the group.

It took the authorities several days to remove his mangled truck.

In 2005, a mysterious odor of maple syrup began wafting over from Jersey, and it took the authorities years to identify the source.