Sentence examples for authorities powerful from inspiring English sources

As a result of his performances, Cirio has often been subject to investigations, legal and personal threats by governmental and military authorities, powerful multinationals, global banks and law firms, as well as crowds of ordinary people.

· Islamic terror cells are spreading eastwards into Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and the Czech Republic for the first time, prompting fears of a new battleground in countries with weak authorities, powerful criminal gangs and endemic corruption in the years to come.

MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin signed into law on Friday a measure that will impose heavy fines on people who organize or take part in unsanctioned demonstrations, giving the Russian authorities powerful leverage to clamp down on the large antigovernment street protests that began six months ago and seemed to be re-energized after Mr. Putin's inauguration last month.

"It's very, very important we push to make sure that UK is somewhere where the police and the authorities — powerful though the tools they have are — that they are always held accountable to us the people".

In short: There is no real authority powerful enough to stop what they are doing, save for maybe the court of international public opinion.

Courage and love are essential because the authorities are powerful and oppressive.

The crumbling of the strike shows that employers and the authorities retain powerful options in the face of rising labor unrest.

Mr. Brodsky leads the committee that oversees state authorities, the powerful, quasi-public corporations that run many vital parts of the state's infrastructure.

They also provide grounds for optimism, insofar as they prove that terrorism is a local, as well as an American, problem, and therefore give local authorities a powerful incentive to co-operate in the war on terror.

Moreover, they say, authorities with powerful technology will inevitably blunder, as became evident in October when an audit revealed that the Navy had lost nearly two dozen computers authorized to process classified information.

General Electric has sold to Chinese authorities its powerful VisioWave system, which allows security officers to control thousands of video cameras simultaneously and automatically alerts them to suspicious or fast-moving objects, like people running.