Sentence examples for granted exceptional powers from inspiring English sources

When your body has been granted exceptional powers, it is jarring to encounter a gulf between your desires and your abilities.

States pass anti-terror laws that grant exceptional powers on the strict understanding that terror poses exceptional threats and that such powers will be used proportionately.

When confronting such high-powered representation, Thornton believes, families should be granted exceptional funding for legal aid.

They have usually been granted "exceptional leave to remain" or what is now called "humanitarian protection".

After a protracted legal battle he was granted exceptional leave to remain.

Eventually they settled in Ilford; both were granted exceptional leave to remain in 2000 (Adrienne is now a British citizen).

Of those, 35 were granted asylum, 1,500 were granted exceptional leave to remain, and 65 were told to leave the country.

On November 7, enraged rioters wounded 35 police officers, and the next day, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin declared a national state of emergency, granting police exceptional powers and authorizing local authorities to impose curfews.

Late Monday, Queen Elizabeth II met a representative of the Privy Council, a panel of senior politicians, judges and church leaders, and granted the government "exceptional powers" under a 1976 law to force oil companies to provide fuel to services like hospitals and schools.

That measure was a particularly hated tool of the Mubarak government because it granted the security forces exceptional powers that were often used to crack down on dissidents.

The state of emergency grants the security forces exceptional powers.