Sentence examples for granted itself from inspiring English sources

"The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to.

The federal government granted itself jurisdiction over interstate child support cases in 1992, but federal prosecutors initially showed little interest.

The civilian state got a further boost on June 26th, when a court stripped the army of swingeing powers of arrest that it had recently granted itself.

There, the Indian government first granted itself the right to represent all the victims in court, and then let Union Carbide off the hook.

Suddenly, Yahoo granted itself the right to send advertising messages to tens of millions of its users who had previously asked to receive none.

BellSouth said it was "troubled" and might take further action because the agency "granted itself the power to maintain the unlawful status quo well into 2005".

They note that Congress imposed similar limits on spending in the 1980s and '90s, only to grant itself repeated exceptions.

The US authorities appeared to be allowing it to prop itself up by allowing it to grant itself bridging loans to get through the immediate current crisis.

As the parliamentary vote approached, the military attempted to grant itself some permanent political powers, a move that had sparked the current round of protests.

The first roll of the die came in December 2012 when Instagram updated its terms of service, granting itself the right to sell users' photos without notification or compensation.

The F.B.I. will presumably argue that the last exemption fits, though Mr. Nojeim was skeptical about whether the bureau was free to grant itself such authority.