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1945 examples of Authority in a sentence

In fact, the SRB even lacks the executive authority to implement its decisions, which are carried out by national authorities.
The need for further Italian public resources could be acceptable if the European Commission’s competition authority were to play a role in the governance of Atlante.
These are major events, since there is no precedent for 11 independent and sovereign countries combining to create a new international currency with a single monetary policy and single monetary authority.
Since then, it has continued to insist that its arguments for invading Iraq are beyond criticism, while making a mess of the postwar administration by refusing to share authority.
On foreign affairs, however, the US president has substantial authority.
If fiscal laxity tarnishes the safe-haven status of Treasury securities, and the monetary authority is perceived to be slow in removing policy accommodation, Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues may get more of the inflation they are hoping for.
With US legislation and claims of executive authority increasingly giving US presidents the power to wage wars, declare all of America a battlefield, assassinate US citizens and non-citizens around the world, hold Afghanis, Iraqis, and Pakistanis indefinitely without charge or trial, and accuse Australian publishers of espionage, the rest of the world needs fearless and accurate American reporting.
In such circumstances, the expectation of future profits can exert a stronger discipline on the public authority than fear of legal sanction.
For years, anti-European sentiment has corroded the authority of Conservative leaders.
Seeing the dreadful state in which the public were, we rendered every assistance in our power...”The Bank of England’s charter did not give it the legal authority to undertake such lender-of-last-resort financial-stability operations.
But the leaders of Parliament also believed that the absence of a codified authority to act as lender of last resort would not keep the Bank of England from doing so when necessity commanded.
But, since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, part of that system has been a central financial authority that preserves trust that contracts will be fulfilled and promises kept.
Since the end of the conflict in June 1999, Serbia has not exercised any governing authority over Kosovo.
The ASEAN Secretariat, for example, lacks the authority and resources to perform crucial functions, including formulating policies, coordinating implementation, monitoring compliance, and settling disputes.
Another area of concern for many voters regards the UK’s sovereignty – the idea that independent countries should have ultimate decision-making authority over what happens within their borders.
In Libya, Islamist militias control entire cities and regions, rendering it impossible for the central government to assert its authority.
Some speculate that the arrest is really part of a power struggle, with President Hu Jingtao demonstrating his authority against a local power broker who had thwarted national policy.
Questioning authority must now start with our own.
But pro-fracking critics of the European Union miss a second point: the EU has no authority over the development of shale gas in Europe.
Because United Russia will hold a parliamentary majority, opposition to executive authority should be much weaker than when the Communists formed the largest faction.
Such a union should be understood as a centralized bank supervisor, resolution authority (RA), and deposit insurance fund (DIF), at least for systemically important and cross-border institutions, as well as a unified rule book for prudential supervision.
This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.”
The institution has been in near-imperceptible decline for almost 20 years, thanks to the rise of the European Parliament and the way EU member governments have whittled away its authority while consolidating their own powers as the EU’s true legislators.
Regulators’ primary tool to enforce compliance was their authority to reject non-CRA-compliant banks’ requests for new branches or mergers.
It ended when the highest EU authority, the European Council, officially recognized in late July that Greece does need a reduction in its debt obligations.
But, while he has continued his softer tone since the election, he has not even bothered to ask for fast-track trade-promotion authority, let alone try to pump new life into the Doha Round of global trade talks.
The mega-regional approach may have one more advantage, shared with the WTO: the involvement of more parties can dilute the authority of a major country and thus limit its ability to strong-arm its negotiating partners into an unbalanced agreement.
Instead, he satisfies the Russian people's craving for a figure of authority and order, and so enjoys colossal support.
But the source of the authority is always the sovereign state.
Trump asserts that he was acting well within his authority, because US presidents can declassify almost anything they want.
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