Sentence examples for yielding authority from inspiring English sources
Premiers have no intention of yielding authority.
Quebec, along with Alberta, has been the most resistant to yielding authority to a national body.
BASRA, Iraq — This southern port city has been, in effect, on its own since September, when British forces here moved to the outskirts, yielding authority to local leaders.
The task is to continuously press the Egyptian military on its existing path of gradually yielding authority to a civilian government.
The polluters, the wealthy, and lobbies such as the National Rifle Association, could count on compassion; the conservatism would be honoured by restraining the federal government in relief for the poor, the sick and the disadvantaged and yielding more authority to the notably corrupt state legislatures and local elites.
It is also an option to merge Carmarthenshire with Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire to form a single local authority, again yielding 11 local authorities in total.
Battered by realities that are even more violent than he is, Don Quixote resists yielding to the authority of church and state.
HONG KONG — China's currency rose steeply against the dollar this week, feeding speculation that Chinese authorities, yielding to international pressure and economic realities at home, were allowing their currency to appreciate more rapidly.
Parliament is on the cusp of passing a law that would explicitly shield corporations from any liability they could face by yielding records to government authorities.
But its new and conciliatory approach — a departure for the bank and its leader, Jamie Dimon, who generally has taken a hard line with the authorities — is yielding mixed results.
But Operation Sustainable Forest, as the resultant campaign is known, does stand out from its many predecessors in one respect: it appears to be yielding some results.The authorities say they have arrested 157 people in Papua province, the focus of the EIA's report, since the campaign began, and another 250 or so elsewhere in Indonesia over the past six months.
