After a six-year renovation that ran 18 months late and $2 million over budget, the authority deemed the Manhattan school "99 percent complete" last fall.

Local authorities seized the dog and deemed her dangerous.

Eight other sect members were fined the equivalent of $556 for taking part in what the authorities deemed an illegal assembly.

The shop was destroyed on December 16, 2010, in a fire, which the authorities deemed suspicious.

After an investigation, authorities deemed the deaths a murder-suicide.

What higher authority had deemed that never in my adult life would I have more than a foot of closet space?

I asked for a full company, but high-ah authority again deemed othah-wise.

Soon local authorities deemed it necessary to form a corps of watchmen who could keep the peace day and night.

Others can be used only at places that the authorities deem appropriate, like shops and restaurants.