The American chess grandmaster was granted power of attorney over a company called Kettering Consultants Inc in October 2007.
It grants power to one over others.
If all IRS employees were suddenly granted indomitable power over American citizens, and granted far-reaching, extrajudicial authority, our allowance of that policy would stand as a political statement.
Physicians are granted great power over the lives of others.
If the union represented journalists, as it claimed to do, it would have been up in arms at yesterday's squalid deal which has granted politicians power over newspapers for the first time in more than 300 years.
India consistently presses Sri Lanka to carry out provisions of its 13th constitutional amendment, first promoted by India in the late 1980s, which in theory grants powers (over policing, land rights) to provincial councils.
Some raised the example of Ukraine's natural gas crisis, saying it was a mistake to grant Russia power over Georgia's energy supply.
Towards the end of last year, the Smith Commission proposed that the Scottish parliament should be granted new powers over a range of sickness and disability benefits, social fund payments and discretionary housing payments.
As noted by Lindsay (2014), legislation declaring a state of emergency granted the federal authority varying extraordinary powers for emergency response purposes, but the legislative acts grant few powers over or responsibility for the reduction of risks.
