Sentence examples for broadened powers from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Alexander Lukashenko, who assumed office in 1994, has broadened the powers of the president over his 22 years in office, earning Belarus the nickname of Europe's "last dictatorship".

It's possible, of course, to endorse the Court's decisions protecting unpopular speech and still object to Citizens United — which, after all, gives broadened speech powers to the most powerful members of society, rather than the least.

Mr. Mugabe's draft, which would have broadened his powers, lost in a popular referendum in February.

In 1867 the emperor restored quite considerable freedom of the press and of public assembly and further broadened the powers of the Corps Législatif.

Four — Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts and Mississippi — have broadened the powers of their juvenile courts, enabling them to take cases of juveniles who would have automatically been tried as adults.

For over a year, opposition parties and others have complained that Mr. Rajapaksa's government has broadened its powers while cracking down on dissent and members of civil society, including journalists and lawyers.