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.