Sentence examples for considerable powers over from inspiring English sources

London's mayors can exercise considerable powers over borough-level planning decisions, especially in relation to housing.

There are almost 500,000 local elected officials, many with considerable powers over schools and local services that could be attractive to big business.

The Indonesian National Armed Forces has relinquished some of its considerable powers over internal security, but this has led to large-scale "judicial mafias" and rising human rights abuses by the police, as Amnesty International has documented, rather than effective democratic control over law enforcement.

Much like PA 4, the new law vests emergency managers with considerable powers over the municipalities they are appointed to run.

[Based on Turner and Podger [ 33].] Mexico decentralized considerable powers over the health sector from the federal to the state governments.

But even with a stronger peacekeeping department, the Security Council will still exercise considerable power over operations, and the whims of the most powerful five nations -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- will continue to be a factor.

The Fed, of course, is the Federal Reserve, which has considerable power over the money supply.

In return, the useful parents exert considerable power over their children long after they cease to be children.

But it will be the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries that will really determine what happens, because OPEC has considerable power over the price of crude oil.

In addition to his role as an Enron executive with considerable power over Mr. McMahon's career, Mr. Fastow managed the partnerships and had a financial stake in them.

Mr. Stevens acquired his considerable power over years on the Senate Appropriations Committee, a post from which he has steered millions, perhaps billions, of dollars in federal money to Alaska.