Sentence examples for genuine powers from inspiring English sources

If they are witches or wizards, and have genuine powers of withcraft, then they are not pretending and the law can't touch them.

One of them may be envy of the prerogative of journalists and of the genuine powers of reportage, another may be the desire to appear momentously "of now".

Its weakness owes something to its unbalanced nature: genuine powers, such as Mr Pujol's Catalonia or Edmund Stoiber's Bavaria, sit alongside feeble local councils from Britain and Sweden.The enemy in BrusselsSome regional enthusiasts now see the European Commission as an enemy.

Genuine powers, the powers that decide the range of life options and life chances of most of our contemporaries, have evaporated from the nation state into the global space, where they float free from political control: politics has remained as local as before and therefore is no longer able to reach them, let alone to constrain.

He believes in a federal system a central government and local governments that have genuine powers.

But in the end they got over the finishing line to confirm that the nearly men of French rugby - they lost 10 grand finals before finally winning the French league title at the 11th attempt in 2010 - have emerged as one of Europe's genuine powers.

But the genuine power resides elsewhere.

Mr. Sloan is a genuine power user of online banking.

Here, the central government writ has genuine power.

"There is no genuine power-sharing," he said crisply.

This paper considers the need for granting the European Union a genuine power to tax.