Sentence examples for transfer authority for from inspiring English sources

The Democratic Unionist Party, worried about weakening links to Britain, is resisting the plan to transfer authority for the police and the courts.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that he planned to transfer authority for building inspections throughout the city to the Fire Department, moving to end what have been recurring cycles of corruption in the city's Department of Buildings.

Ms. Gillibrand's legislation would transfer authority for all serious crimes, a source of disagreement; Ms. Collins noted that sexual assault had unique problems with reporting that did not affect other crimes and therefore might not need to come under the jurisdiction on an outside prosecutor.

Other proposals were to retain the Barnett formula, give Scotland control over its railways, and transfer authority for dissolving parliament and holding elections from Westminster to Holyrood.

Brent Millikan of International Rivers states, 'constitutional amendment PEC 215 would transfer authority for demarcation of indigenous lands from the Executive branch to the Congress.' Demarcation would become a political decision; power of the Executive being transferred to the Legislature, an abuse of the separation of powers, a foundation stone of the Constitution.

The version approved by the House Armed Services Committee does not go as far as the commission recommended in transferring authority for intelligence operations from the Pentagon to the new office.

Tucked into the Homeland Security Department bill that President Bush signed into law on Monday is a measure transferring authority for immigrant children who enter the country without any adult relative or guardian to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The 10th Mountain Division headquarters transferred authority for MND-S to the 34th Infantry Division, Minnesota Army National Guard on 20 May 2009.

In the 1950s, Public Law 280 transferred authority for certain tribes to six states, with others following, thereby expanding criminal jurisdiction to cover crimes committed on tribal lands.

Liberal M.P.s said it was SCAF's responsibility, and called for SCAF to transfer authority and for the resignation of the Interior Minister.

But efforts to quickly transfer authority often backfired.