But it's revealing that Mr. O'Neal felt empowered to write that piece in the first place.
According to a June interview with Snowden in Hong Kong, the only individuals empowered to write these entries are those "with top secret clearance and public key infrastructure certificates", special access cards enabling unique access to certain parts of NSA systems.
But on Tuesday morning Ashraf, accompanied by senior cabinet ministers, arrived at the grand marble chamber of the supreme court to announce that the law minister had been "empowered" to write to the Swiss authorities.
By refusing to break under the pressure of great adversity, you become empowered to write your own story, in which you are the hero.
As a result, the program was terminated, a lawsuit brought those affected nine million dollars, and Congress created a commission empowered to write regulations to deter such abuses from occurring in the future.
In other words, the 260-member-firm organization is empowered to write and enforce its own rules.
In lauding him, we erase the stories of women throughout history who were not empowered to write memoirs of their experiences, and haven't had museums dedicated to their memory.
The lack of research, statistics and evidence-based practice related to my disease, led me to feel empowered to write my own story.
It was very obvious that there was a need for this work -- for young artists to be empowered to write and perform their own work.
Step-by-step the Department simply lost its way: First, the panel of negotiators involved in developing the "gainful employment" regulations with the Department, included only one representative out of 14 members -- a panel that the law empowers to write the regulation if there is "consensus".
