delegated
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Stevenson sits on the equality, human rights and civil justice committee as well as the transport committee, and is a substitute member of the delegated powers and law reform committee.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Humphrey’s made “independent agencies more tempting repositories for delegated powers that the President could not access with quite such ease,” he writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Lunetta pointed out that hospitals "have repetitive tasks" which "could be delegated to a good robot".
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
As a committed constitutionalist, he delegated the American crisis to his ministers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
“What is it, Gus? Something you didn’t handle correctly? Some authority you delegated to somebody else?”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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