Sentence examples for governance powers from inspiring English sources

"It is the Legislature's opinion that the electoral governance powers are conveyed to it directly by the U.S. Constitution and cannot be circumvented by action of the state Supreme Court," Mr. McKay said in the joint statement.

A second approach might involve a more direct form of user-ownership, in which the company as a whole remains unified but individual Facebook users, together, wield significant ownership and governance powers.

The key issue is and will remain the balance of governance power between shareholders and boards.

Competitors in the energy sectors have the advantage in terms of governance power, financial resources, and the existing energy infrastructures.

After all, whether you accept Bacon's dictum or not, you have to agree with that simple tautology of governance: Power is power.

Barriers of culture, governance, power differentials, legal and regulatory regimes, differences in policies, protocols and practices must be addressed before collaborative arrangements are established.

Only some 78 companies in the S&P 1500 index feature multi-class shares, the mechanism that gives insiders extraordinary governance power disproportionate to their capital invested in the company.

In Brussels, predictably, the talk is of the need for closer economic governance, new powers of surveillance for the European Commission and its statistics office and perhaps the creation of a European lender of last resort.

INJUDICIOUS JUDICIARY The Supreme Court in its last session continued a disturbing 30-year trend in American governance: usurping powers that properly belong to Congress.

Several of the administrative divisions established constitutions that devolved power to local jurisdictions, and, though the 1993 constitution guaranteed local self-governance, the powers of local governments vary considerably.

Although the three branches of government – cabinet, national assembly and high court – provide a facade of institutional governance, real power is exercised through informal networks that shift and change at the president's discretion.