• Back in 2009, after the House passed a media shield bill, the action shifted to the Senate, leading to a compromise bill that would protect reporters' sources, but grant the government authority to override that in certain national security cases.

    WSJ: Schumer: Group of senators to look at media leaks

  • The interim government and the coalition authority have regularly made the goal of including Sunnis in the government the centerpiece of their efforts, changing the constitution and appointing Sunnis to positions others had to be elected to.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Myth of the Sunni Diehard

  • In doing so, they are obliged to grant the central Soviet government the authority to negate virtually any act of a republic.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • In a neat manoeuvre, the government got the authority to agree to the takeover by giving Hackney's new star director of education, Elizabeth Reid, a big role in the arrangement.

    ECONOMIST: Education

  • "Tony Blair's unprecedented second landslide, after a campaign in which no-one could doubt the main parties' positions on Europe, gives the government precisely the authority it needs to lead a great national debate about Britain's future in Europe, " Mr Taylor said.

    BBC: Blair: Anarchists will not stop us

  • The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which gave the government more authority to set standards for food sold at school, could help by increasing the reimbursement for school meals.

    CNN: She ate 162 school lunches -- and blogged it

  • The gas complex where Belmoktar's followers struck at dawn Wednesday is in a region that has seen plenty of jihadist activity in recent years, in part because of the collapse of government authority across the Libyan border, just 50 kilometers (31 miles) from In Amenas.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • In particular, the Trust Fund finances ongoing Federal government activities in responding to the BP oil spill, and then provides the legal authority for the government to seek full reimbursement from the responsible party for these activities.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • That resolution expires on December 3rd, leaving the federal government without the authority to spend any money.

    ECONOMIST: Congress

  • In this grab bag of proscriptions and prescriptions, can we find a provision defining the size and scope of the central government authority in creating and maintaining a social welfare system?

    FORBES: Limited Government, Reform, and the Japanese Constitution

  • The leading argument against DOMA all along has been that the federal government lacks authority under the Constitution to create and enforce a definition of marriage different from that of the state in which a couple resides.

    WSJ: Michael McConnell: The Constitution and Same-Sex Marriage

  • This week, for instance, Frank is set to introduce a bill giving the government resolution authority for faltering non-bank financial institutions, an idea that is supposed to go a long way toward ending the notion that any one company is too big to fail.

    FORBES: Financial Reform: The Legislative Logjam

  • President Karzai is increasingly extending the government's authority across the country.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations

  • Over the past year, both the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority have taken important steps to build confidence.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Bilateral Mideast Peace Meetings

  • He said the council could not achieve this overnight but the government cash took the authority further in the right direction.

    BBC: Walton and Leatherhead cycle lanes get ?1.6m boost

  • The Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority are already cooperating on a daily basis to increase security and reduce violence, to build institutions and improve conditions on the ground.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Bilateral Mideast Peace Meetings

  • The Egyptian government and the Palestinian Authority tried to persuade Israel to let a third party monitor the main crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza strip, which thousands of Gazans surged across last week.

    ECONOMIST: Another hurricane

  • McCain voted for the 2001 law, which has given the federal government unprecedented authority over testing, academic standards and the rating of the nation's public schools.

    NPR: Candidates Differ on Breadth of Education Plans

  • Or should the government use its authority to advance certain products while discouraging the use of others?

    FORBES: Is the White House Proposing A Massive Carbon Tax?

  • Asked on the BBC's World at One programme whether these reverses showed the government was losing authority, Mr Straw said this was not the case.

    BBC: Brown condemns 'personal attacks'

  • In defending the constitutionality of the Act, the federal government relies upon the Commerce Clause of the Constitution as the enumerated power supposedly delegating authority to the federal government for this regulatory compulsion.

    FORBES: ObamaCare and the Constitution Are Contradictory: One Must Fall

  • With the government's authority, moral and practical, in doubt, the church is beginning to fill the vacuum.

    ECONOMIST: Mexico

  • The reason for this is not the money NPR receives from the government but the colophon of authority that federal subsidy confers.

    FORBES: Unparalleled authority.

  • In 1988, the government tasked the Civil Aviation Authority with looking ahead 15 years to assess what might be needed to make sure London's airports did not become congested.

    BBC: New transport secretary's Heathrow baggage

  • David we've been heartened by the very positive reaction to our report, virtually every government in the world has endorsed it including the government of Israel and the Palestinian authority.

    BBC: News | BREAKFAST WITH FROST | Senator George Mitchell

  • The Kurdish leadership agreed to a U.S.-sponsored compromise in 2005 in which the central government would have the authority to manage existing oil fields, but new fields would fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the regions.

    WSJ: Kurdistan Is a Model for Iraq

  • But the about-turn on three-month money made it look inconsistent, and the Northern Rock affair has damaged its public standing, even if the government and the Financial Services Authority, Britain's banking supervisor, were also at fault.

    ECONOMIST: CSI: credit crunch | The

  • He was tapped by new president Dilma Rousseff to lead the government run Public Olympic Authority, the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper reported Monday.

    FORBES: Brazil's Ex-Central Banker Tapped to Lead 2016 Olympic Investments

  • The government is now reviewing the authority of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to oversee and control reproductive medicine.

    CNN: graphic

  • The independent intervention board, the first in Wales, was imposed by the assembly government following concerns the local authority was failing to protect young people.

    BBC: Reviews into three teenagers' deaths to be published

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