Sentence examples for act powers from inspiring English sources
Mrs. Spaulding said she would urge Congress to tighten restrictions on when the F.B.I. could use the Patriot Act powers.
Where the owner ignores calls to put the property to use, a local authority can make a compulsory purchase order under Housing Act powers.
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence whom Paul has criticized for lying to Congress about surveillance, issued a rare plea to pass a bill he has reluctantly embraced in order to retain Patriot Act powers.
They are among more than 3,300 people kept in detention "solely under Immigration Act powers" in removal centres such as Yarl's Wood, which has faced allegations of abuse and mistreatment of inmates by staff.
The White House has long backed passage of the USA Freedom Act, calling it the only available mechanism to save the Patriot Act powers ahead of expiration now that the House has recessed until Monday.
As intelligence officials wondered on Friday how the Senate would vote, or if Paul would take the floor all night, they issued a final plea to pass the USA Freedom Act and spare their Patriot Act powers.
The news agency quotes Miranda's QC Matthew Ryder as saying: The exceptional nature of this case insofar as it involves the use of schedule seven [of the Terrorism Act] powers to obtain highly controversial journalistic material, should not be underestimated.
195, were unconstitutional, in part because that Act delegated powers to an administrative agency without providing adequate standards and guidelines.
The Act included powers to improve the Witton Brook from the Weaver to Witton Bridge.
Legislatures act through power; courts act through reason.
