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Maryland's House of Delegates has approved antiterrorism legislation that would broaden powers to wiretap telephones and monitor e-mail messages and other computer communications.

With his broadened powers, he has removed members from the planning commission and a brownfields authority board and installed his own choices.

She will leave a legacy of advancement for women in the judiciary, broadened powers for the Constitution and support for gay rights.

Mr. Morsi's first use of those broadened powers was to replace the country's chief prosecutor, arguing that he had protected corrupt former officials and cronies from the overthrown government of Hosni Mubarak.

The measure, introduced in October, would restrict the broadened powers that the government was given in the antiterrorism law, approved by Congress weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The parliament has seized the opportunity to broaden its powers by naming leading candidates in the May election.

Judge Kaye, appointed by a liberal governor, led the charge to broaden the powers of the State Constitution, supported gay rights and voted against the death penalty.

"The commission hoped the Airtours case would broaden its powers to control oligopolies," said John Temple Lang, a partner in the Brussels office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

They grew into a broader rebuke of the government, one consequence of which is that an effort pushed by Mr. Erdogan to broaden the powers of the presidency seems impossible, at least for now.

Analysts had warned that as president, Fico could shepherd a constitutional amendment through a compliant parliament to broaden his powers or even transform Slovakia's parliamentary system into a presidential one.

Israel is expected to broaden the powers of an internal inquiry into the botched raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in May in the wake of a barrage of claims that its investigation lacks any credibility.