Sentence examples for bestowing power from inspiring English sources

Rather than bestowing power privately upon his new cabinet, he inaugurated them on live television.

They regard the election as simply a means of formally bestowing power on a man who has run the show behind the scenes since July.

More than a hundred years ago, Andrew Jackson also believed that bestowing power and responsibility upon a single bank was the cause of inflation and other perceived evils.

I had thought we had dispensed with this nonsense, but it would seem that as long as we condemn a video before we condemn a violent reaction to it, we'll always be bestowing power upon those who wish to pass this kind of law.

In 1889 the British government granted a charter to Rhodes's British South Africa Company (BSAC), bestowing powers of administration and enabling it to stake claims to African territory at the expense of other European powers.

This move has bestowed power and money on certain figures within these ethnic communities – but it has also enabled successive governments to pretend that racism is no longer the problem.

The message to messrs Mousavi, Khatami and Karroubi (the steadfast and so-far united leaders of the green movement) is clear; do not confuse popularity with power – it is the system that has bestowed power upon you and in defying it you are close to being beyond the pale.

L.Paul Bremer III pronounced the country a better place than the one once littered with Saddam Hussein's torture chambers, thanked the officials who had served with him on the now defunct Coalition Provisional Authority, bestowed power on the new Iraqi prime minister, Iyad Allawi, and was gone.

But Lee delivered on the rhetoric, enacting new anticorruption legislation and bestowing real power on the anticorruption bureau.

For a country that simply does not want this input, EFTA is the better place to be.THOMAS SIEBERICHSBrusselsSIR Your argument for bestowing the power of constitutional oversight on a Council of Nations rather than the Court of Justice is strong.

There isn't going to be "rent control," which lots of evidence suggests would be a mixed blessing in London anyway - mayors cannot introduce it and there's precisely no chance of the present government bestowing the power to do so.