Sentence examples for assumed powers from inspiring English sources

At the same time, this White House has assumed powers for itself that no previous Administration has done".

This assembly assumed powers to curtail the activities of Congress and intervene in the judiciary (so far, it has sacked 195 allegedly corrupt or abusive judges).

Eugenics is Beck's favorite history lesson because he wants to argue that something went wrong in America during the Progressive Era: the federal government assumed powers not granted by the Constitution.

"He's not the nation's superintendent," Mr. Kline said of Mr. Duncan, who assumed powers greater than any of his predecessors when, in 2009, Congress voted $100 billion in economic stimulus money for the nation's school systems and allowed the secretary to decide how much of it should be spent.

When the General Assembly reconvened with a majority sympathetic to the governor, he was permitted to continue many of his assumed powers.

Instead, powerful oligarchs such as current president Petro Poroshenko no less have assumed power.

The prime minister, Mohamed Ghannouchi, assumed power.

"North Korea has changed a lot since Kim Jong-un assumed power.

Gen. Ibrahim Babangida assumed power following a bloodless coup in August 1985.

Veit Harlan started directing just as Hitler assumed power.

After Peter died in 1725, Catherine assumed power as Catherine I.