Sentence examples for be empowered to decide from inspiring English sources

Immigration officers would be empowered to decide who could be expelled.

"We believe Corvas shareholders should be empowered to decide for themselves how they wish to redeploy their share of Corvas's substantial cash balance," Mark N. Lampert, president of the fund, said in the letter sent Friday to the Corvas board.

Everyone should be empowered to decide who has access to their personal information".

"Judges and prosecutors should be given flexibility and be empowered to decide the fate of those before them in the justice system".

Under the law of the time, martial law was declared by the local military commander, at which point a group of Commissioners would be empowered to decide on the facts of offences, before passing the case to the commander, who would pass judgment.

[See Appendix] The Committee recommended that the Executive Committee be empowered to decide on this issue since the situation is not clear enough at this time to take action.

Egypt under Hosni Mubarak was a country where there was only one person to talk to, one person who was empowered to decide.

Kerslake cites the example of John Lewis, where individual staff are empowered to decide whether to grant a customer a refund up to a certain amount.

A suitable text was written early in 1961 and was presented that May to the Central Commission, which was empowered to decide what texts were to be discussed at the opening session of the Council.

Although it's widely assumed that the president alone is empowered to decide what military option the United States should pursue in Iraq, that is not the case.

This agency is empowered to decide the criteria on its own, but would prefer to have these negotiated by parties specifically concerned about this issue of low-level radioactive waste.