Sentence examples for transfer authority over from inspiring English sources

The Northern Ireland assembly was voting on a measure to transfer authority over the police, courts and prisons from London to Belfast starting April 12.

BAGHDAD — As funerals were held on Friday near the site of a suicide bombing in Anbar Province the day before, the American military delayed plans to transfer authority over security in the province to Iraqi forces.

The renewed American call for the Palestinians to transfer authority over security agencies to Mr. Qurei represents a redoubled effort by the Bush administration to see that power stripped from Mr. Arafat.

Vouchers transfer authority over the use of a portion of government education funds from bureaucrats to parents, who then may use their grants to send their children to the schools, secular or religious, they believe will best educate their kids.

The Central Bank of West African States transferred authority over Ivorian funds to Ouattara.

The standoff between Catholic and Protestant leaders over transferring authority over the police and the courts to Belfast from London — which is partly about money and partly about politics — could stall the process of devolving power to Northern Ireland.

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.

The Iraqi Governing Council named a 25-member cabinet to begin taking over day-to-day control of the government in an important first step in the effort to transfer authority to the Iraqis from the Americans.

The Bosnian Serbs are determined to have full control over their own destiny, and fear that if they continue to transfer authority to a central government, the more numerous Bosniaks will end up in control.

But efforts to quickly transfer authority often backfired.

They flip-flopped on when they would transfer authority.