Sentence examples for exercising its power from inspiring English sources

The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that for the first time it had begun exercising its power to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products, an authority it was given under a 2009 law supported by President Obama.

So even if a just state does not dominate its citizens in Pettit's sense of exercising its power over them arbitrarily, it still must be capable of such dominance if it is to be able to keep order against those who would otherwise defy its commands.

Obviously, much of that initial burst of pro-Americanism was the world's gut reaction to the horror of 9/11, and when America soon started exercising its power to retaliate some of it was naturally going to dissipate.

"It is important that Facebook is exercising its power carefully and protecting more speech rather than less".

But that didn't stop the N.R.A. from exercising its power.

The city is still a long way from actually exercising its power to seize property.

Nothing could prevent an omnipotent agent from exercising its powers, if it were to endeavor to do so.

He cited a concurring opinion of Justice William O. Douglas in one of the 1975 cases, saying that immunity from antitrust laws was available "only if the S.E.C. is actively and aggressively exercising its powers of review and approval".

In theory, Congress could pay debts not only by borrowing more money, but also by exercising its powers to impose taxes, to coin money or to sell federal property.

The Bush administration's request for United Nations assistance in Iraq and the recent cooperation with France in Haiti may be belated recognition of the reality that America needs the legitimacy conferred by the international community when it exercises its power.

But how it will exercise its power remains a mystery.