Yes, any worker is empowered to stop the assembly line because he spots a flaw.
Authorities are empowered to conduct spot audits and require a relatively high standard of compliance.
Palau has also emerged as a testing ground for some of the technology — including drones, satellite monitoring and military-grade radar — that might finally empower countries to spot and arrest the pirates, poachers, polluters, traffickers and other scofflaws who prowl the seas with impunity.
At Addenbrooke's hospital there are now eight staff who have been "trained" by police and are empowered to issue on-the-spot fines to patients, an astonishing development sanctioned by the chief constable of Cambridgeshire, Julie Spence.
You need employees who can empathize with customers, are empowered to solve customer problems, and can spot opportunities to improve operations.
Summary tribunals would be held inside stadiums, with judges empowered to impose sentences on the spot.
The leader's job today must be to ensure that employees are empowered to make decisions on the spot (without running them up the food chain) to meet customer needs and beat the competition.
If Pacquiao had shown too much pain, Aguilar said, he was empowered to postpone the fight on the spot.
Meanwhile, in Cuba, American surveillance spotted Soviet missiles, but Washington was unaware whether local commanders were empowered to launch them.
Mariposa County sheriff's deputies are, according to their boss, "empowered to protect, serve and enrich" their community — including any helpless critters that find themselves in a tight spot.
