Sentence examples for using the authority from inspiring English sources

What is banned is religious groups using the authority of the school to impose their prayer on other people's children.

The city began the ban using the authority given to the mayor's office under emergency orders that are re-issued every five days.

And U.S. Treasury officials now say that they plan to do something similar, using the authority they didn't want but Congress gave them anyway.

Russia has never acknowledged using the authority under the 2006 law and has specifically denied any government ties to high-profile cases, including the Litvinenko murder.

By midday, Con Ed had already started using the authority granted by some of its customers to remotely turn up the thermostats in their homes.

Then, using the authority vested in her by the office hierarchy, Drammeh rounded up her remaining charges — eleven managers, security guards, cashiers — and instructed them to evacuate in pairs.

In its last months, the Johnson Administration refused to use the authority conferred by the new law.

So that's the first reason: we didn't use the authority when we had it.

So I used the authority vested in me by the United States of America.

"I decided this was big enough and important enough to use the authority I clearly had.

One Fed official promised never to use the authority "short of a national war".