Sentence examples for controversial power from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the most controversial power they were granted was the ability to "lock down" areas.

Portly, chain-smoking and with a reputation as a bon viveur, Sherzai is one of Afghanistan's more controversial power brokers.

But two months later came Beijing's use of its controversial power to "interpret" Hong Kong's mini-constitution, the Basic Law.

The controversial power for police to hold terrorist suspects without charge for 28 days is to be scrapped within months, The Independent has learnt.

The point at which terrorist sympathies pose a specific enough threat to merit imprisonment may be as hard to ascertain as the proper limit of that controversial power.

(AP) DALLAS The Dallas Mavericks wrapped up their pursuit of Dennis Rodman yesterday, signing the controversial power forward to a contract.

Both drivers were using the controversial power-restricted V10 engine.

On a controversial power-play opportunity that extended 24 seconds into overtime, Rob Blake fired a shot at Johnson that ricocheted into the air, where the Avalanche captain Joe Sakic nudged it in for the game-winning goal.

The Metropolitan police have been accused of breaching human rights laws by using the controversial powers against a disproportionately high number of black Londoners.

Seven terror suspects have been released from specialist control measures and there are currently no individuals subject to the controversial powers, the terrorism watchdog has confirmed.

Hashi's supporters claim that he had been visiting family in Somalia in 2012 when Theresa May stripped him of his passport under Britain's own controversial powers against terror suspects.