Sentence examples for empowered only from inspiring English sources

Instead, the latter offices were exempted, and the ombudsman's office was empowered only to make recommendations.

The White House said Mr. Richardson was empowered only to deliver the same message that it had said in public: that there would be no negotiations until North Korea halted its two nuclear projects.

The framers meant for the legislative branch to be the most important actor in the federal government: Congress was to make the laws and the president was empowered only to execute them.

These critics argue, she writes, that "tattooing shifts the focus of women's issues from society to the self; that tattooed women are empowered only in their minds; and that women who find solace in tattoos are no different from women for whom shopping and exercise are substitutes for problem-solving".

The message here is that women can be strong and empowered, only as long as their power or success still caters to male power and ego.

Mr. McKinnon is working with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard to propose a primary debate commission for 2016 that would be empowered to authorize only certain debates.

It empowered not only networks but smaller news operations as well to report from just about anywhere.

If we are serious about building self-sustaining communities where people are empowered not only to consume but also to create, it is vital not to overlook the importance of our nation's fledgling shared machine shops.

This relates to the observation that victims of discrimination need to be empowered not only by laws, but these laws crucially should be enforced and used.

Now it's back, empowered not only by Trump, but by the Supreme Court's consistent watering down of anti-corruption and campaign finance protections.

The book demonstrates the need to design HIV/AIDS and life skills education within a human rights framework in which young people are empowered, not only to claim their rights, but also to take charge of their lives.