Sentence examples for exercising more power from inspiring English sources

Buoyed by increases like that, boards are exercising more power than ever over whom they accept, and where those applicants keep their money.

"Bashir has emerged as exercising more power himself.

While both MLB and NBA are franchise-driven leagues with teams exercising more power and control than the central league office does, there can be no denying the highly profitable, greater than $9 billion, NFL's enviable business model.

The board had assumed more power as the health of Roy Wilkins, Mr. Hooks's predecessor, deteriorated, so as chairwoman, Mrs. Wilson exercised more power than most board leaders.

He exercises more power in selecting his roles and has made an extremely savvy choice by straddling the Scorsese-to-Spielberg gamut.

As the European Union's dominant economic policy maker, Ms. Merkel has arguably exercised more power over Greece's fortunes during the past three years than any Greek prime minister.

"But the entire industry is going through a difficult period," as sales slow in some markets, retailers exercise more power over suppliers and the marketing of new products becomes increasingly expensive.

"For someone who has a hostile Republican Congress to deal with, he seems to exercise more power over Congress than most presidents have had over Congresses of their own party".

His junior partners, the Social Democrats (SDP), are acting like an opposition party; parliament has begun to exercise more power; and EU officials are demanding more action against crime and corruption.

His successor, Vladimir Putin, progressively exercised more power so as to define how parties compete in elections and how the Duma operates, thereby guaranteeing his government's legislative support and so reducing the role of the premier accordingly.

Anna McMullen, campaigns coordinator at Labour Behind the Label, said in a recent interview: "Multinational corporations, which exercise more power than many governments and make increasingly large profits, have the responsibility to ensure human rights are upheld for people who produce and sell their goods.