Sentence examples for be empowered to set from inspiring English sources

One constructive action lawmakers could take is to put some teeth back in the Obama proposal for a Medicare commission that would be empowered to set rates for hospitals, doctors and other providers, subject to congressional veto.

China's central bank chief said today that the country's banks would be empowered to set their own lending and savings deposit rates within the next three years, an important step toward opening the tightly controlled Chinese financial markets.

But they would be empowered to set strategic objectives for the police and ensure that those objectives are met, with the ultimate sanction of being able to hire and fire the chief constable.

In the Netherlands, the courts have occasionally been empowered to set wages, but the resulting decisions have often been uncoordinated with the rest of stabilization policy.

Under the resulting system, the council is empowered to set tax rates, formulate the budget, and organize or abolish any agency of the District's government.

They were empowered to set the rates for tolls, and the owner was obliged to transport all goods at the established rates.

EMPOWER: Parents and donors are empowered to set the parameters of their own relationships, without a middleman, and without waiting 18 years.

The district is empowered to set priorities, and is responsible for health service implementation and for supervision of individual health facilities on a monthly basis.

They're empowered to do so.

"Consumers will be empowered to make their own decisions, set their own price, design their own product," he said.

Pruitt would not be empowered to cancel the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which sets goals for states to meet in reducing their carbon pollution.