Sentence examples for claimed powers from inspiring English sources

The president has claimed powers above and beyond those King George III exercised, Mr. Sessions hyperbolized.

As part of its claimed powers, the administration argued that captives from the Afghanistan conflict in 2001 were neither prisoners of war subject to the Geneva Conventions nor ordinary criminals subject to American courts.

Yet it is evident from the many layers of secrecy around Manning's arrest, imprisonment and prosecution that the government shows no sign of relinquishing its claimed powers to obscure rightfully transparent judicial proceedings.

If the risks of discovery are great enough, the lawyer has to find a different method for communicating". If lawyers such as Royce were to ask him what their duty was, he said, given the clients' identity and the government's claimed powers, "I would say, 'Don't use the phone or the Internet to communicate with your clients or others about the case.' ".

This was precisely what Bush followers used to say about his claimed powers of due-process-free eavesdropping and detention: maybe this would be scary if Hillary Clinton could do this, but I trust Bush to use it only against the Bad Guys.

The provisional government collapsed and the Bolsheviks claimed power.

Within hours of Claudius' death, Nero claimed power in a speech to the Praetorian Guard.

More broadly, Mr. Ashcroft has claimed power to detain non-citizens even when immigration judges order them released.

His handpicked successor, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, 57, is a Communist Party loyalist who was born a year after Fidel Castro claimed power in Cuba.

Supreme Court decisions and a scholarly consensus reject Mr. Trump's claimed power to end birthright citizenship by executive order.

Doctors reported being attacked in wards and claimed power to part of the hospital had been turned off.