Commissioners are the formal head of the territories in Canada (those areas under the formal jurisdiction of the federal Crown-in-Council and without separate constitutional status of a province).

Energy Secretary Hazel R. O'Leary, who prompted the attention about radiation experiments, has no formal jurisdiction over the Army's biological testing program.

These were to provide points of first arrival outside formal Vietnamese jurisdiction.

Although the UK does not have any formal jurisdiction over the Arctic, it does have strong commercial and scientific interests there.

Although his formal jurisdiction was limited, Maclean's achievements were substantial; for example, he arranged a peace treaty with Asante in 1831.

Although as late as 1970, the Petit Larousse described it as having been a "French colony from 1868 to 1936", France never claimed formal jurisdiction or sovereignty over it.

Emmanuel's chapel is not under the formal jurisdiction of the local Church of England bishop, and did not have to obey a House of Bishops ruling against such blessings.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which has no formal jurisdiction, and state regulatory commissions, which do, have both increased their oversight about as much as they can.

The Ottomans erected their garrisons throughout southern Albania by 1415 and established formal jurisdiction over most of Albania by 1431.

Abe Sanders had gotten his wish formal jurisdiction over the case.