They also appointed their own preachers to run the city's mosques, empowering them to resolve civilian disputes.
However, according to researchers such as Lih and Creighton [ 20], genital surgery is risky, does not empower women to resolve body image issues, and often leads to a preoccupation with the next unattractive physical attribute to be altered.
In that respect, the recent bank "stress tests" amount to mere window-dressing because, unlike the Fed/FDIC regulatory framework, the ECB is only empowered to supervise financial institutions, not to resolve failed banks.
But despite the modest goals of the trip, there was a wide gap between what the commission was doing — what little it was empowered to do — and what was required actually to resolve the issue of the missing.
Moreover, according to judicial precedent, the executive branch is empowered to interpret any ambiguity in a law to resolve the problem, as long as the interpretation is plausible according to that law.
The agency is empowered to prioritize applications for generics that "could help mitigate or resolve a drug shortage and prevent future shortages".
When a parent relates to a child, or a self-confident and well-adjusted adolescent to a depressed and distraught friend, for example, they do not relate as two business persons do during a contract negotiation, but as two, differentially empowered people, trying to resolve an issue of mutual concern.
The ideal place to demonstrate international resolve is the United Nations Security Council, which is empowered to apply sanctions and even military force against countries that violate the nonproliferation treaty.
They're empowered to do so.
A community empowered to govern itself".
We felt empowered to be better parents".
