Sentence examples for crucial powers from inspiring English sources

While more powerful than the institution that preceded it, the European Banking Authority still lacks crucial powers like the ability to oversee revamping of a pan-European financial institution.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 — Two months after insisting that they would roll back broad eavesdropping powers won by the Bush administration, Democrats in Congress appear ready to make concessions that could extend some crucial powers given to the National Security Agency.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The leaders of the two major political parties here, in an unexpectedly strong show of unity against President Pervez Musharraf, agreed Sunday that they would reinstate the judges fired by the president and would seek to strip him of crucial powers.

SNP MSP Sandra White said: "Labour's weak devolution proposals simply don't give Scotland the powers we need to make our country a fairer, more prosperous place and leaves far too many crucial powers over the economy and welfare in the hands of the Westminster establishment.

The king has kept his crucial power to dissolve parliament and rule by decree.

With a script co-written by star Billy Bob Thornton, the movie deepens through slow reveals of crucial power shifts.

Dell's recall of batteries for more than four million laptop computers, though, has brought renewed attention to the temperamental nature of a crucial power source.

As a police official Zannis has a suddenly crucial power: he can name certain individuals as wanted criminals and ask that they be extradited to Greece.

Together they have used the Syria crisis to present Iran as less of a threat than a respected and crucial power in the region.

The huge wave engulfed much of the complex, and destroyed the crucial power systems needed to cool the complex's nuclear fuel rods.

Most analysts had predicted that the Hezbollah-led coalready, already a crucial power broker in the Lebanese government because of its support from Shiites who make up a large part of Lebanon's population, would win handily.