How to Use local authority in a Sentence

local authority

noun
  • The stakes may differ, but the disrespect for local authority remains the same.
    — Joshua Simmons, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2026
  • First, arrivals must find a long-term rental contract, then register with a local authority — a 45-day process.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Now, one local authority in southern England is campaigning to change that.
    — James Frater, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Anyone can make a Prevent referral, to police or a local authority.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 7 June 2026
  • Iowa could get rid of townships as a unit of government and eliminate their boards of trustees, transferring their local authority to their respective counties.
    — Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register, 20 Feb. 2026
  • What should receive less funding is wasteful bureaucracy and programs that don’t deliver results or undermine state and local authority.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
  • What should receive less funding is wasteful bureaucracy and programs that don’t deliver results or undermine state and local authority.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • But the legislature has since acted to bolster local authority to regulate oil operations.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
  • Lambert said that misunderstanding the limits of local authority likely fueled the online reaction.
    — Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Independence is exerting its local authority to add some restrictions to development agreements between the city and outside agencies.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Last year, the local authority of Buckinghamshire, England, denied planning permission for proposals to build a new 90-megawatt data center on green belt land.
    — Ryan Browne, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Iowa lawmakers are considering a bill that would strip townships of their responsibilities and eliminate their boards of trustees, transferring all local authority to their respective counties.
    — Nick El Hajj, Des Moines Register, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Critics have accused the administration of overreach and undermining local authority.
    — Amanda Castro hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The state also has the ability and will, under my administration, to increase local authority for permitting and planning since those representatives are more intimate with the needs and demands of that region within the state.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • Critics of the move argue the deployments undermine state and local authority and exceed the president's authority under the Constitution.
    — Arkansas Online, 30 Jan. 2026
  • If so, their case goes before a multi-agency panel (called a Channel), chaired by the local authority and attended by social services, education and mental-health professionals, who agree on a support package.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 7 June 2026
  • The ordinance was held in committee again this week as legislators debate whether it can be legally enforced, and the county counselor’s office has declined to sign off on it, citing insufficient local authority to set policy for federal agencies.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The 70-plus-page bill is an omnibus package that would significantly reshape state and local authority over land use, environmental protections and agricultural regulation.
    — Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Reform recorded victories across the country, taking over Essex county council in the south, Havering – its first London local authority – and the northern English city of Sunderland.
    — Chandelis Duster, NPR, 10 May 2026
  • Then, last month, British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner granted planning permission for the project, overturning the local authority’s decision.
    — Ryan Browne, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Local governments and activists at the time criticized the state’s push to remove crosswalk art as an overstep of local authority and attempt to erase Florida’s LGBTQ community.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • At the center of the dispute is the District’s argument that Washington’s local authority has been overridden by federal law enforcement and the National Guard presence, which began in August.
    — Chris Boccia, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In 2023, the local authority proposed relocating 60 to Ambani’s private animal sanctuary, Vantara, in the Indian state of Gujarat.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 1 May 2026
  • Authority of Baltimore Police The executive order further emphasizes that the Baltimore Police are the local authority, and immigration enforcement is not their responsibility.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The decision, which was first reported by the BBC, was made by the club, the Football Association and the local authority in 2023 after the FA opened a safeguarding investigation having received allegations regarding Sullivan.
    — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 9 June 2026

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