Sentence examples for within their authorities from inspiring English sources

The report concluded that Stephen J. Hadley, now the national security adviser, and Paul D. Wolfowitz, who was then the deputy defense secretary, "acted within their authorities" to send the Pentagon officials to Rome.

"That is clearly within their authority".

Judge Shafer said she found the arbitrators' decision "rational" and "within their authority".

Judge Cummings said officials acted within their authority in preserving "a community's standard of what subject matter is considered obscene and inappropriate".

"The D.O.T. has it within their authority to do something," said David Neeleman, the chief executive of JetBlue Airways, a new low-fare airline based at J.F.K. in New York.

ALBANY, Sept. 20 — The Albany County district attorney said on Thursday that Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his administration did not break any laws and acted within their authority in their handling of travel records related to the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno.

Jeffrey Lerner, a spokesman for Mr. Cuomo, said the findings "echo the attorney general's conclusions, where we found no crime was committed, because all relevant officials acted within their authority".

US district judge Emmet G. Sullivan concluded that federal officials were within their authority in a rule allowing "incidental" harm to polar bears that might occur in the Arctic as a result of oil and gas activities.

"To the contrary, we found that the governor, his staff and the New York State Police were acting within their authority in compiling and releasing documents to the media concerning the use of state aircraft".

By saying that Mr. Spitzer's aides had acted within their authority, he could have been addressing one of the potential violations being considered, official misconduct, a misdemeanor related to the unauthorized exercise of one's official functions.

On Sept. 21, 2007, in its first findings on the Bruno case, Mr. Soares concluded that Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his administration did not break any laws and acted within their authority in their handling of travel records related to Mr. Bruno.