Sentence examples for extensive power of from inspiring English sources

A recent report published by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University explains why the extensive power of the NYPD and some of its questionable practices necessitate a system of oversight akin to the oversight model that keeps the FBI and the CIA in check.

As inspector general, Mr. Barofsky has extensive powers of investigation but no enforcement power.

It still enjoys extensive powers of patronage and coercion, as well as a monopoly on broadcast media.

In 2007 new constitutional amendments banned political parties with a religious orientation and increased the extensive powers of the president.

After the Portuguese secured control of Sri Lanka, they used their extensive powers of patronage and preference in appointments to promote Christianity.

He has also pledged to reduce the extensive powers of the president, seen as the root of Kirgizstan's corruption, by shifting some functions to the prime minister.

The parliamentary rules have followed the United States' pattern and have given the standing committees extensive powers of control over the government and administration.

In the Middle Ages the Italian barons had extensive powers of jurisdiction within their domains and could inflict the death penalty.

Risk-averse to a fault, he has refused to use the extensive powers of his office even while the budget descended into chaos.

Though he will be able to claim that after barely two months it is hardly his fault if the LDP-led coalosesn loses its majority in the upper house, as was expected at least until Mr Koizumi took over, such an outcome would make the business of governing Japan nearly impossible: the upper house, though not as influential as the lower house, has extensive powers of veto.

The common element is a power failure a failure to understand or exercise the unique and extensive powers of the presidency.