That leaves their resolution to unsympathetic markets and to public officials.

He left it to officials of his campaign to respond to the charge.

Those determinations are best left to others, including Empire's board of directors, regulators and elected officials.

The decision to close beaches to swimming is generally left to local lifeguards or other officials.

How to divide codes is left to local officials.

It's been left to local officials to define these terms.

There is considerable ambiguity in both the public and private rental markets; many aspects of these arrangements are left to local officials.

"I think we ought to leave it to local elected officials to hammer it out," he said.

Instead, it was left to local officials on the frontier to manage the Russians as best they could, an impossible task without funds or troops.

They left it to lower-level officials to defend him.