Sentence examples for empowered governors from inspiring English sources
The Obama cadre's carefully laid plans spun out of control, however, and have empowered governors Scott Walker and Chris Christie, and the other Tea Partiers.
It was a classic example of what can happen and the reason you empower governors to have clemency".
From here, the SEIU is likely to take the sector-specific fight to other states with laws that empower governors to unilaterally raise wages.
The bill also empowered the governor to remove any appointed state official.
The 1891 constitution empowered the governor with a line-item veto, but its use was forbidden on constitutional amendments and laws related to the classification of property for tax purposes.
Besides effecting the reorganization of the executive branch, the Reorganization Act of 1936 also explicitly empowered the governor to appoint executive department heads and establish, combine, or divide departments as necessary.
By empowering the Governors to run their own areas directly, decision-making can be sped up.
"We shouldn't worry so much about Karzai, we should worry about empowering the governors and getting better district chiefs and police chiefs," said a senior State Department official.
Those three states as well as North Carolina declared states of emergency, empowering their governors to mobilize the National Guard.
To allow such picking and choosing would, in effect, empower the governors with a line-item veto authority that President Obama himself did not possess at the time he signed the legislation.
