Sentence examples for almost absolute powers from inspiring English sources

After it was concluded, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, meeting in Vichy, conferred upon him almost absolute powers as "chief of state".

A second bout of emergency financial management took hold in 2011 — this time with increased and almost absolute powers that were approved by Governor Rick Snyder — which forced schools to close down, saw public workers lose their jobs, and demolished more and more houses.

She resigned as first reader, although she remained in almost absolute power.

The impenetrable IHA has almost absolute power over the imperial family.

As an occupying power in Iraq, said Lord Mance, Britain had under international law "an almost absolute power over the safety of its forces".

Neither Mr. Harding nor Mr. Rose ever climbed higher than the vice chairmanship of the party, but the title belied their almost absolute power.

This almost absolute power in the hands of government is exercised through paid "whips" whose job it is to drive all members of their party, regardless of conscience or preference, through the "division lobbies" on the government's side.

Female farmworkers are especially vulnerable to sexual assault and harassment, where foremen have almost absolute power over their workers.

The ambiguity surrounding the parameters of what amounts to conduct detrimental and what acts are more or less detrimental gives the league almost absolute power when protecting itself.

Under the auspices of a régime d'exception (the equivalent of a state of emergency), Mobutu assumed sweeping, almost absolute, power for five years after which, he claimed, democracy would be restored.

Said was an old man, who was held in good standing by tribesmen across the region and had formerly been a caïd (a local governor with almost absolute power) for the Moroccan government, even serving in the army of Sultan Abdelaziz against a pretender at Taza in 1902.