Sentence examples for explicit power from inspiring English sources

Roughly every decade this switches from explicit power grabs to unsubtle efforts to manipulate civilian leaders.

Interestingly, the Victorian government has recently flagged it will give its EPA the explicit power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Congress's exercise of that explicit power trumps whatever implicit power the commander in chief might otherwise have.

Last year, local politicians also demanded that British authorities should have the explicit power to split up banks completely.

This, Alter writes, was "dictator talk," "an explicit power grab" that echoed Mussolini and "every other crisis leader in world history".

So if there is no explicit power to violate privacy given to the government, which there isn't, then we retain our natural right to privacy.

Given his background, Mr. Summers would be more likely to use the implicit and explicit powers of the Fed to shield and preserve the too-big-to-fail system.

It would be easier to give Mr Straw the benefit of the doubt if he had accepted the argument that the lord chief justice needed explicit powers to decide whether an inquest could be held in private.

The House version of the bill, which Mr. Lungren proposed in December and is expected to come before a full committee in coming weeks, allows Homeland Security to lay out performance standards on security, but does not give it explicit powers to regulate.

The power of the federal government is strictly limited: The states established it and gave it explicit powers, reserving the rest for themselves and for the people.

Sir Michael made repeated calls last year to be given explicit powers to inspect the head offices of academy chains, in the same way that Ofsted can look at local council children's services.