Sentence examples for won authority from inspiring English sources
In the end, all those arguments have won authority and policies have changed as a result.
President Obama won authority to increase financing for grants to poor college students by atotal of $17 billion in 2012 and 2013.
The city also won authority from the legislature to establish a tax to support a local school, and in 1845 the first free public school in Wisconsin opened there.
The Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., who won authority from Congress last month to use taxpayer funds to bolster the companies, always maintained that he hoped never to use that power.
Continental eventually won authority to fly to 16 cities in Central and South America, including Santiago, Chile, and Rio de Janeiro.
He can talk about winning authority to negotiate new trade agreements, but the economic benefits would be years away.
He also said he would push hard to win authority to use any tools he viewed as necessary and lawful to protect against a future terror attack.
Mr. Zoellick's most immediate challenge is to win authority from Congress to negotiate trade deals that could not be picked apart through amendments.
Though Ms Bair failed to win authority to raise deposit insurance to whatever level she deems appropriate, lawmakers agreed to a temporary increase, from $100,000 to $250,000, as part of the bail-out.
He hoped to win authority by waging successful frontier wars and to gain recognition through concessions rather than to insist on the sacred and priestlike status of the royal office that the church had built up in the 9th century.
AFTER winning authority to borrow to keep the state afloat, the next test of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ability to govern will not involve gay marriage or a constitutional amendment permitting immigrants to be president.
