Sentence examples for collection of powers from inspiring English sources

The European commission remains obsessed with defending the acquis communautaire, the collection of powers "acquired" by the Union, which EU doctrine dictates must never be returned to nation states.

By law, Augustus held a collection of powers granted to him for life by the Senate, including supreme military command, and those of tribune and censor.

It should have been predictable that this model would lead to a tyrannical collection of power.

With $350 million from Goldman and its investment partnerships, Orion strung together a collection of power plants from New York City to Cleveland.

He decided to walk away to spend his time more constructively, messing about with his collection of power tools.

They are merely a collection of power hitters who take three full cuts without fear of embarrassment.

The Barking Riverside site was formerly occupied by a collection of power stations which shut down in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Today, Keene releases "In the Late Bright," yet another strong collection of power-pop compositions anchored by Keene's buzzing, insistent guitar.

The barn, with 35-foot ceilings and doors tall as a two-story building, is filled with tables covered in blue plaid for eating, a stage for bands, a floor for dancing and an extensive collection of power tools.

Rather than selling each business individually, Enron could pool them into what it had assessed in May as a $10.8 billion collection of power plants, utilities and pipelines called OpCo Energy.

His mandate, as is that at other Gulf funds, is to slow the deal making down and make sense of a hodgepodge of assets that includes both the oil and natural gas production and a large collection of power plants.