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How to use the word authority in a Sentence? Page #3

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We have seen a disturbing trend where state courts are increasingly willing to go behind closed doors and rewrite the rules of our elections, this is just about ensuring that elected lawmakers are writing election laws, that those laws are being honored and that courts are not exceeding their authority and acting as super lawmakers.

Jason Snead

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To address inequities, we can ensure prevention, detection, treatment, reach patients in urban, rural, suburban and tribal communities, so they have equal access to cancer diagnostics, therapeutics, and clinical trials, as part of the supercharge moonshot, I'll use my authority as president to increase funding, to … break logjams, to speed breakthroughs.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A content creator can have authority and expertise, but being a content creator does not automatically make them a true authority or expert.

Loren Weisman

added by weismanloren
1 year ago

No student athlete should have to go into any venue and be subjected to that kind of an atmosphere, you want a raucous crowd if you're the home team, that's fantastic, but when it crosses that line, it becomes the responsibility of those who are in authority to make sure that atmosphere stays safe and free of any of those kinds of elements that would prohibit people from playing at their highest level.

Marvin Richardson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is illegal. The president doesn't have the authority to do this. He's not an emperor. He can't just with the stroke of a pen cancel $300-$400 billion worth of student loans, it's unfair. Eighty-five percent of the people in this country do not have a student loan. They either had one and paid it or they don't have one, and that 85% is gonna pay for the 15% who got a tangible benefit.

Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He does not have the constitutional authority to do this, he is relying on emergency powers because of COVID. So, wait a minute, you got a Ph.D. in gender studies five years ago and that has something to do with COVID. It is an abuse of power. It’s not constitutional.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The political authority and banking institutions in Lebanon are responsible for this situation, if matters are not addressed swiftly, the situation will worsen.

Hassan Mughniyeh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This drug pricing plan is based on a litany of false promises, they say they’re fighting inflation, but the Biden administration’s own data show that prescription medicines are not fueling inflation. They say this is ‘negotiation,’ but the bill gives the government unchecked authority to set the price of medicines. And they say the bill won’t harm innovation, but various experts, biotech investors and patient advocates agree that this bill will lead to fewer new cures and treatments for patients battling cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases.

Stephen Ubl

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We were there for 15 minutes. It was clear that the committee was unable to comply with the regulations regarding use of deposition authority and moreover has no interest in complying with the regulations, we're happy to provide the information if they can either do it fairly and legally or if we can reach a resolution on how to do a voluntary interview which minimizes the risk of election interference.

Tim Parlatore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a result of the civil authority's lack of control over the security services, especially the police and security agencies, and therefore we were not able to impose our control over the smuggling process.

Mohamed Al-Faki Suleiman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We very much want to get as much information and informed decisions out to the American public as possible. And yet again, like we were for Covid, we are again really challenged by the fact that we at the agency have no authority to receive those data. We're working on that right now.

Rochelle Walensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Alan Greenspan could dive deeply into the data. Paul Volcker had a personal authority about Paul Volcker understanding of markets and banking that was intimidating.

Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's an overriding concern, and to me it's the maintaining of traditional political, social, cultural and economic hierarchies. That's the underlying political project, it's about weaponizing unease over changes the country has undergone over the past few decades and restoring and entrenching traditional authority, not just on a political level but also in the local community, in the public square, in the workplace and in the family. The assault on LGBTQ rights is very much a part of it, and must be seen in this context.

Thomas Zimmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These modifications to administrative law will immediately give the ISP the legal authority to consider more evidence when determining whether to issue or revoke a FOID card and will strengthen the ISP’s ability to keep firearms out of the hands of dangerous individuals.

Illinois State Police

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You go from being sad and missing your loved one to being very angry, it's a lot to take in to know that other people are going through the same thing. It's a lot to know that people are sitting in places of authority and basically giving the green light to this nonsense.

Garnell Whitfield

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The consolidated disposition authority will review the evidence and make an independent determination on accountability consistent with the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Samuel Paparo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A prosecutor really does have a lot of discretion to decide their priorities and cases, but they could get voted out of office, or states could give the authority to prosecute to someone else.

Rachel Barkow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The curfews worked well in 2020 and 2021, we had few if any disturbances during those seasons, and we do not want a repeat of what happened during the Memorial Day weekend this year. With the threat of ‘pop-up’ parties being promoted on social media, we need to give our police officers the authority to maintain the peace in our family-friendly beach communities.

Mayor Hill

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Are the ingredients of your story coming from an all natural narrative? Or is the majority of your story packed with artificial fillers of false hype, excessive claims, other peoples authority and copycat marketing? Consider giving your audience and potential audience something authentic and natural to digest.

Loren Weisman

added by weismanloren
1 year ago

The Senate's a lot of stuff they already have authority to do.

John Thune

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As expected, SBI securities web trading platform pages have been made UNRESPONSIVE by them again today. SBI securities have no fear of any authority for such open mischievous dacoity being done with regularity

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_1
1 year ago

If this southward declining trend of Indian Stock Market continues even after 17-19th May then the share price of SAIL Steel Authority Of India may reach Rs.55 or even Rs 50 by the end of May month.

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_1
1 year ago

SBI Cap stock brokerage firm continues to make its trading platform pages unresponsive every day and loot its clients without any fear of any regularity authority like SEBI which is good for nothing

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_1
2 years ago

It works to ensure that the way in which we address threats, the connectivity between threats and acts of violence that are addressed without infringing on free speech, protecting civil rights and civil liberties, the right of privacy, this working group, internal working group, will draw from best practices and communicate those best practices to the operators because Governance Board does not have operational authority.

Alejandro Mayorkas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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