Sentence examples for use their authority from inspiring English sources

Judges in Delaware are appointed and generally use their authority to reject death sentences.

Clerical leaders, the young Lee concluded, should use their authority to fight discrimination.

Poorly paid policemen, soldiers and civil servants often use their authority to serve themselves, rather than the public.

The demonstrators worry that the military rulers, as they have before, may try to use their authority to carve out privileges or immunities for themselves.

Nor is it a well-organised state whose leaders can be induced to sign a surrender and then use their authority to fulfil its terms.

Many in the Legislature agree, and show no sign of wanting to use their authority to increase the oversight of the state pension fund, the nation's second-largest.

At issue in the current case is whether the retired generals knew of the abuses and could have used their authority to stop them.

It would broadly prohibit states from using their authority to write food safety regulations stronger than those required by the federal government.

Medicare officials said they were using their authority to minimize the number of low-income beneficiaries who would need to shift plans next year.

"Wayward Police" (editorial, Feb. 5) addresses a disturbing number of cases in which officers have been accused of using their authority to commit sex crimes against women.

There are certainly statutes that bar government employees from using their authority to influence a Senate nomination or to promise employment as a reward for political activity.