Sentence examples for empowered to demand from inspiring English sources

Parents, students, teachers would be empowered to demand to see the accounts of expenditure.

PRB Countries such as Cuba have demonstrated it's possible, so the call really now is for political commitment and for families to be empowered to demand this change.

Ideally, the Food and Drug Administration should also be empowered to demand that new drug candidates be compared directly against existing drugs, not simply against a placebo.

After the uprising known as the Baptist War erupts in 1831, leading to the emancipation of Jamaica's slaves, Miss July becomes the intermediary between Goodwin, now the plantation's owner, and a freed work force newly empowered to demand wages and days off in which to tend their own crops, bring their cattle to market and look after their own children.

"There's a lot of money being generated in south Manchester through council tax, and people working and paying higher taxes, and I think that they are more empowered to demand more and insist their streets are better and they've got more facilities.

Previously, the law stated that anyone who "abducted or deceives a minor" could face a prison sentence under article 475, but a second clause of the article specified that when the victim marries the perpetrator, "he can no longer be prosecuted, except by persons empowered to demand the annulment of the marriage – and then only after the annulment has been proclaimed".

Only some actors are empowered to request or demand information.

When Republicans' midterm election gains empowered them to demand extending the tax cuts for all incomes, Mr. Sperling helped to devise the stimulus package Mr. Obama won in exchange, including a one-year payroll tax cut, and to sell the compromise to unhappy liberals in Congress.

I'm excited by the potential the iPhone brings to organizing, not because it will enable people to tweet about their preferred candidate more frequently, but because people will be able to upload "walk lists" wherever they are, and will be empowered to canvass on demand.

"The transition from King Richard to Emperor Emanuel has not been an easy one, and I think people have felt more empowered to do something now," to demand more from City Hall.

Because science, viruses, microscopes and drugs are one thing, but if you secure the legal rights of sex workers to be free from violence and discrimination, you empower them to demand universal condom use, and that way, you stop HIV being spread into the whole community).