Sentence examples for ask for power from inspiring English sources

The Treasury secretary didn't so much go to Congress and ask for power and then exercise it broadly and flagrantly.

So, if scholars only ask for power over, they will always find winners and losers.

He said he would ask for powers to be devolved from Westminster to ensure it happens.

The outgoing system, whereby the assembly could ask for powers to be transferred from Westminster on a case-by-case basis, had "led to many delays", Mr Jones said.

The European Union's executive may ask for powers to censor credit ratings for countries in crisis, its financial reform chief said on Thursday, describing a ban as one way of stopping fallout from "ill-thought-out" ratings.

To keep the system as close to 60 cycles as possible, the regional grid operator, the PJM Interconnection, sends a signal every four seconds, asking for power to be added or withdrawn.

Parents are not asking for power.

Beware of the leader who asks for power he hopes to never use.

When more than one woman steps up and asks for power, it becomes harder to dismiss sexist critiques of and reactions to that ambition.

Then he'll say: "Star Admiral slow power", or ask for half power, or full power.

Was the Home Office deliberately misleading ministers by asking for powers that we now know GCHQ already had?