"authority" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Self-Filibuster The senior Senator of Kentucky called for a vote on giving the president unilateral authority to raise the federal debt ceiling.
- In March 2011, the court ruled that the office of the public defender did not have unilateral authority to dismantle the defense team.
- Despite this, however, the titular premier could not generally invoke unilateral authority over his deputy if he wanted to maintain his government's stability; in practice, both men had to agree on virtually any political course of action.
- Finally, the case for unilateral presidential authority loses all force when our intention to take military action has already been declared far in advance.
- Distracted by President Bush's abuse of signing statements, the panel failed to address the real and significant risk posed by the administration's extravagant claims of unilateral authority to govern.
- Goodman notes that "Later authorities were reluctant to assume such unilateral authority... Later authorities thus imposed severe limitations on the conditions and situations where it would be appropriate and necessary to uproot.
- All of this argues strongly against giving Mr. Burton the unilateral authority to issue subpoenas and release confidential information for the committee, which he has just been granted.
- Parent-child relationships, he said, are more likely to consist of parents having unilateral authority over children.
- Presidents Ronald Reagan through George W. Bush made arguments for unilateral presidential authority that Shane characterizes as unprecedented and legally groundless.
- Democrats say that the committee's last Democratic chairman, Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, never used this unilateral authority.
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