Sentence examples for claiming powers from inspiring English sources

Stressed and sometimes ill-trained mercenaries operate in Iraq's mayhem with apparent impunity, erecting checkpoints without authorisation, and claiming powers to detain and confiscate identity cards.

Parliament is now claiming powers that, thanks to a historic quirk, have given Downing Street the powers of a monarch.

That is not necessarily a bad thing, but after claiming power and money and privilege, boundaries get blurred.

She describes her popping palette like light treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder as "claiming power and joy in the moments of sadness, confusion or confinement".

Probably because the use of the word in some instances by women is not about demeaning someone else, but about claiming power.

To lament was to claim powers that crucifixion was designed to destroy: dignity, courage, passion, love, and remembrance.

The provisional government collapsed and the Bolsheviks claimed power.

So his willingness to leave power was as profound as his ability to claim power.

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

Or does he merely claim power over them as an elementary male prerogative?

Everyone wants to claim power, because they know that nobody else is going to share power with them".