"exercise its power" is correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used in legal or political contexts to refer to the action of using authority or control to accomplish a certain goal or decision. Example: The government must carefully consider when to exercise its power to declare a state of emergency, as it can greatly impact the rights and freedoms of its citizens.
But how it will exercise its power remains a mystery.
"Even if it did not conspire to bring war about, it declined to exercise its power to prevent the outbreak by restraining Austria.
Mr. Sitt's reluctance to trade his land could be particularly problematic for Mr. Lieber because the city has said it will not exercise its power to acquire the Coney Island land by eminent domain.
AL4 initially included links to Netflix and iTunes; but since Amazon was providing an important service resulting in transactions and revenues for AL4, it was able to exercise its power to remove those competitors from the ecosystem.
"It does not hesitate to exercise its power boldly, openly pressuring the government and political parties".
By putting itself in service of truth, faith enables reason to exercise its power in realms to which it would otherwise have no access".
Nevertheless, the court has been reluctant to exercise its powers and provide meaningful reparations to the nearly 4,000 civil parties participating in the trial.
"I intend to write to Michel Platini expressing our dissatisfaction and will be asking Uefa to exercise its powers to appeal against the wholly disproportionate punishments imposed against Serbia.
The government could also exercise its powers of eminent domain to buy up mortgages at a discount, requiring banks to take losses, and then cut borrowers a break.
The Banking Supervisory Board should exercise its powers in full recognition that the Governing Council of the ECB is the ultimate executive authority of the ECB.
The Supervisory Board should exercise its powers in full recognition that the Governing Council of the ECB is the ultimate executive authority of the ECB.
