Sentence examples for wider authority from inspiring English sources

Last year, Congress gave the commission wider authority to prohibit such manipulation.

Student power must develop into much wider authority, with the ability not only to shape strategic decisions, expenditure and investments but to approve or veto them.

One of the more significant changes to the guidelines came in 2003, when a federal judge eased limits on surveillance after lawyers for the city argued that the police needed wider authority to stop terrorism.

Just three weeks after the Bush administration demanded wider authority in its battle against terrorists, the Senate voted 96 to 1 to approve a 243-page bill changing the laws on wiretapping, money laundering and conducting computer surveillance.

In recent weeks, Mr. Frank has been saying that the Fed might have to share the role of systemic risk regulator, indicating that there was not enough support in Congress to give the Fed alone the wider authority that the president had been seeking.

Gaveston's appointment came with wider authority than Ulster's, however, for he had full regal powers to appoint and dismiss any royal officers.

His addendum was directed at cricket's wider authorities, but applies to Twenty20 under whichever guise it's played: "You have to be careful you don't kill the goose that laid the golden egg".

In theory, the Governing Council has wide authority.

The monitor would have wide authority over policy, senior staffing and training.

It was given wide authority in social issues, including human rights and crime.

In the past, civilian courts have given military tribunals wide authority in cases involving military personnel.