Sentence examples for beyond their powers from inspiring English sources

But, in recent years, teachers have been held responsible for things that may often be beyond their powers to change.

Navi Pillay said peace negotiators seeking to offer amnesties in return for regime change would be acting beyond their powers.

China's Communist Party mouthpiece, the People's Daily, berated local officials for going beyond their powers and conniving with the Jiangsu Tieben company illegally to push forward the $1.3 billion project.

However, over the years senior politicians including David Cameron, Ed Balls, Michael Gove, David Blunkett and Oliver Letwin had intervened to support Kids Company though there was no evidence they acted inappropriately or beyond their powers.

The very fact that police may be acting beyond their powers and in an arbitrary manner is cause for concern, especially when the imposition of kettles is often accompanied by extensive and excessive use of police violence.

Yet British regulators are using the narrow powers granted under European law to effect significant changes not only in how bank branches behave but also in how their parent banks behave elsewhere".They're operating slightly beyond their powers," judges one senior lawyer.

"It was beyond their power, because here, they're also victims," Mr. Sharma said.

They offer no justification of their demand beyond their power to enforce it, warning the Melians against having any hope in portents or oracles.

Instead, our doomed heroes find their fate dictated not by implacable forces that are beyond their power to influence, but by the designs of their fellow human beings.

But they don't tell the brutal truth – or maybe they deny it to themselves – that some deaths are terrible and beyond their power to help.

New Labour has its vices, but has at least learnt not to see every crisis as an excuse to enlarge the work of governments beyond their power to do good.