Sentence examples for broad power of from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Padilla's lawyers, Donna R. Newman and Andrew G. Patel, emphasized the broad power of the writ of habeas corpus and "its ability to cut through barriers of form and procedural mazes," as they quoted one former Supreme Court justice.

He gave the opinion of the Court in Cooley v. Board of Port Wardens, which established the broad power of Congress to regulate interstate and foreign commerce, and in Murray's Lessee v. Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, which confirmed the government's power to assess and collect sums due to it by its agents without resort to law.

If you have an existing broad power of attorney as part of your estate planning, you don't need to run out and sign a new one, McCaffrey says.

Johnson's conviction in 1912 was a prime example of the broad power of a law pitched as a way to stop what was at the time called white slavery.

Recognizing a broad power of impoundment by the President to handle the federal government in the absence of a higher debt limit would permit the President to radically change budget priorities by deferring this but not that -- precisely the same kind of power that got Nixon into trouble.

In Germany, which over the last 60 years has learned all too well the dangers of too-powerful security services, the intelligence service is given broad powers of domestic surveillance, but if officers find evidence of low-level crimes, they may not share it with law enforcement officers or introduce it in court.

Dad has given me broad powers of attorney, but I feel I can't use them against his wishes.

Mr. Weinstein pointed out that the court explicitly recognized "that the broad powers of cooperative governance carry the potential for abuse".

The National Accountability Bureau has broad powers of investigation and arrest and under law is allowed to hold a suspect for 90 days without charge.

In recent months, Attorney General John D. Ashcroft has faced an intensifying debate about the broad powers of the USA Patriot Act.

Rights advocates fear Egypt's interim, military-backed authorities are using a state of emergency that grants police broad powers of arrest to silence critics.