Sentence examples for expand its powers from inspiring English sources

The F.B.I. took new steps yesterday to expand its powers -- allowing it to snoop on mosques, libraries and the Internet, for example -- and they make sense.

In its original form the House of Burgesses was little more than an agency of the governing board of the Virginia Company, but it would later expand its powers and prerogatives and become an important force for colonial self-government.

Mr. Giuliani, who opposed the creation of the independent board as a mayoral candidate in 1992, has recently begun to expand its powers and budget, saying it has grown in competence.

Europe's leaders could no longer kid themselves that it was "business as usual," and the community would need to redefine its economic priorities and develop a more modern economic philosophy before it thought again about how to expand its powers and enlarge its institutions.

The statutory change is unnecessary, I suppose, if you believe that there is in fact no real threat, that it's all hype by the White House to expand its powers — presumably to some other end — and that all we have to fear is fear itself.

"The Fed is not intentionally seeking to expand its powers".

In the years since Sept. 11, 2001, Congress has repeatedly allowed the executive branch to expand its power, even as it encroached upon American citizens' civil liberties.

Finally, there was a crisis of authority in 12th-century Europe, with the church and nobility riddled with corruption and a revolution in government as it sought to expand its power into its subjects' lives.

It's about consolidating power, and its awards show is mostly about trying to expand its power without necessarily sharing it.

Others are more particular: How is China using technology to maintain and expand its power?

And not only a common one but a familiar one, too: a Russia itching to expand its power and influence.