"authority" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The mayor created the commission in 1995 after he successfully blocked a City Council attempt to create an independent agency with wide-ranging authority to investigate police corruption.
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur ruled the defeated nation with wide-ranging authority.
- You do have wide-ranging authority on anything that concerns military affairs.
- The Native Administration Act, 1927 gave the executive government wide-ranging authority to govern the "native reserves", and the people living in them, by proclamation.
- Oct. 6, 2008 - Threatened with national bankruptcy, Icelanders give the government sweeping powers, including wide-ranging authority over its banks.
- The bill gives wide-ranging authority to regional governments in all matters except defense, foreign policy, judicial, fiscal and monetary affairs and matters considered "strategic."
- There is concern that this wide-ranging authority, concentrated in a single council, might be a cause of the dysfunctional governments experienced by many First Nations.
- And in some states, the secretary of state has actual wide-ranging regulatory authority over businesses as well.
- Most of these units have wide-ranging authority, having the right to suspend most basic human rights.
- He enjoyed wide-ranging authority which extended even to the military.
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