Sentence examples for almost complete power from inspiring English sources

Mr. Aristide and his opponents are deadlocked over other elections in May 2000 that handed the president's party almost complete power, and some diplomats voiced fears that today's events would spawn more violence against the opposition.

After his inauguration, scheduled for May 20, Mr. Ma will have almost complete political power to pursue his agenda.

Trapped by his almost complete lack of power, he's obsessed with exercising the little power he does have.

Although Parliament is elected, Mr. Saleh has an almost complete lock on power and at times ignores laws it passes.

Whereas a Bonferroni correction could be used to limit false positives, the high number of tests (typically in the tens or hundreds of thousands) forces an almost complete loss of power.

Barring subsidies, investment in the power generation sector has come to an almost complete halt in the restructured European power sector.

What's really at stake is the life of the fatherland!" And so the role reversal is almost complete: a president who came to power as a tireless crusader for the poor now seems downright bored of dealing with their problems, while an opposition long dismissed as an embittered reactionary clique comes to embody the people's aspirations.

And perhaps the value that our country needs most right now, in an age of almost complete cynicism about politics, is the power and promise of hope.

Scaf enjoys legislative authority, the power to draft the constitution, extraordinary powers of arrest and almost complete control over its own affairs and the final say on going to war.

Swinney's demands came a few hours before the House of Commons was due to debate proposals for the Scottish government to be given even greater powers to introduce almost complete financial freedom from the UK government, a scheme known as full fiscal autonomy.

They have broad subpoena power over witnesses and almost complete control over the materials presented to grand jurors.