Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] authorities [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Both Houses have , therefore , established committees to examine proposals for legislation by the European authorities with a view to securing a parliamentary input via a Minister before the instrument is settled in its final form .
2 Cocaine is traded openly in the favelas , which are ruled by the semi-fascist authorities of drug dealers .
3 José Xanana Gusmao , the military commander of the Front for an Independent East Timor ( Fretilin ) , who was captured by the Indonesian authorities in November [ see p. 39196 ] , appeared in a televised interview released by the Indonesian authorities on Dec. 1 .
4 José Xanana Gusmao , the military commander of the Front for an Independent East Timor ( Fretilin ) , who was captured by the Indonesian authorities in November [ see p. 39196 ] , appeared in a televised interview released by the Indonesian authorities on Dec. 1 .
5 ‘ Nevertheless the fact remains that disciplinary action against officials who may have exceeded their duties or wilfully abused the position of responsibility with which they have been entrusted is a purely internal matter which will be carried out , should the situation warrant it , by the appropriate authorities at the appropriate time .
6 Compliance with these rules will be enforced by the appropriate authorities in each member state .
7 For the past twenty years he had been trying to show the ‘ educated classes ’ the merits of Gothic and now found them acknowledged ‘ by the highest authorities in the land ’ .
8 Under the Third Republic coded diplomatic telegrams were passed as a matter of course to the French foreign office by the postal authorities to be decoded and read ; and this activity reached a climax in the first years of the twentieth century .
9 In August it was announced that all first-year Beijing University students would undergo a year of military and political training , while two other top universities were to devote the first five weeks of the new term to the study of documents issued by the central authorities on the " truth " about the " counter-revolutionary rebellion " .
10 Slovenia 's airports , which had been closed by the federal authorities on June 27 , were reopened on July 26 .
11 The Slovak government initially claimed that they had been planted by the federal authorities in the 1980s and had not been functioning since 1989 .
12 Perhaps paradoxically , it is argued that the money supply should not be manipulated by the monetary authorities on a short-term basis because the existence of such lags would make the effect of monetary policy uncertain , although powerful .
13 The PLO itself published a communiqué in Tunis on June 8 attributing responsibility for the killing to the Israeli secret service , Mossad — a charge which was in turn dismissed by the Israeli authorities as not meriting a response .
14 An airlift of 14,087 Ethiopian Jews — widely known as Falashas ( a name they rejected ) — was carried out by the Israeli authorities on May 24-25 , in anticipation of the fall of the Ethiopian government .
15 A meeting between members of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace talks and Arafat on June 18 caused them to be threatened with possible arrest by the Israeli authorities on their return to the occupied territories .
16 The package , although modest , nevertheless marked a change of policy by the Israeli authorities towards the stagnated Palestinian economy .
17 The Palestine Human Rights Information Centre issued a report on Dec. 3 which detailed " the systematic use of electric shock torture " by the Israeli authorities in the occupied territories .
18 The incident aroused official protests from both Syria and Czechoslovakia , which claimed that the tank shipment formed part of a 252-tank deal approved by the Czechoslovakian authorities before the 1991 constraint agreement came into force .
19 CHINA : Huchin Togos , a schoolteacher , and Wang Manglai , a Mongolian-language specialist , have reportedly been detained without charge or trial since May 1991 following a crackdown by the regional authorities against two organisations accused of ‘ instigating ethnic division ’ .
20 A UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara ( Minurso ) would then have support from 2,900 civilian , police and military personnel in overseeing the registration of voters ( based on a census compiled by the Spanish authorities in 1974 ) , the political campaigns , and voting in a referendum , to be held by January 1992 .
21 The Financial Times of Sept. 7 observed that the decree " amounts to a belated admission by the Soviet authorities of the sorry state of discipline in the military , with widespread tales of racial discrimination , bullying , gang warfare , and chronic disregard for safety regulations in soldiers ' training " .
22 Enthroned in 1971 , in his last years he presided over the church 's rehabilitation by the Soviet authorities after decades of repression .
23 Several thousand Estonians were reported to have demonstrated on 23 August , the date of the pact 's signature ; still larger numbers , between 7,000 and 10,000 , were reported to have demonstrated in Latvia ( where substantial demonstrations also occurred in June 1987 to commemorate those who had been deported from the republic by the Soviet authorities in 1941 ) .
24 Alexander Burovoi , head of the permanent team researching the accident , and Alexander Sich of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , estimate that at least 35 per cent of the radiocaesium and 50 per cent of the iodine in the reactor core was released : twice or three times the estimates released by the Soviet authorities in 1986 .
25 The disappearance of 100 kg of weapons-grade uranium was confirmed by the Russian authorities in mid-November .
26 The first true canal , with locks and a towpath , was that constructed by the municipal authorities of Exeter between 1564 and 1567 to allow barges to pass around the weirs on the river and to reach the city .
27 Western journalists were taken by the Iraqi authorities to the site , where more than 300 bodies — including those of at least 91 children — were recovered , many burnt beyond recognition , and it was feared that many others remained buried in the wreckage .
28 On March 21 foreign journalists were taken by the Iraqi authorities to Karbala .
29 To a great extent their analysis of the problematic nature of the established set — up tends to parallel that advanced by the constitutional authorities in that they are attentive to the political and economic problems of adversary party politics , elective dictatorship , and the overload of conflicting demands .
30 Some reports by the Nazi authorities on the unrest which had arisen claimed that it was having an impact on confidence in Hitler himself .
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