Sentence examples similar to circumscribe power from inspiring English sources

His success in governing the economy will depend on coming to grips with, and making the best of, highly circumscribed power".

A governor of California, like a Los Angeles mayor, has highly circumscribed powers, and has to rely on cunning and compromise.

He says it is possible to conceive of a fully elected upper house and certainly of a part-elected and part-nominated upper house with carefully circumscribed powers.

Despite its civilised chairman and circumscribed powers, the Neill committee is heading for a collision with Mr Blair.This is because of a difference of philosophy.

As Jefferson said: "A choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom .To subscribe to the notion that "it is possible to conceive of a fully elected upper house...with carefully circumscribed powers", is to forget that the possible is seldom the probable.

But it has since tried to circumscribe that power.

This would circumscribe presidential power, but it would confer greater legitimacy on military interventions and better shield the president from getting all the blame when the going got tough.

But in a typically English way, we bend over backwards to be polite and respectful to Her Majesty while we circumscribe her power.

The government, which is not just any other economic actor, did not give away its authority to set fiscal policy or circumscribe its power to tax in those laws.

But legal scholars could recall no ruling that had circumscribed presidential power significantly.

"There's nothing expressed in legislation that [shows] parliament has attempted to circumscribe the powers to make treaties.