Sentence examples for granted powers from inspiring English sources

By taking on the job Reichl had, at a stroke, been granted powers of life and death.

A statute of 1393 granted powers to its citizens to remove weirs from the Thames, and the lord mayor of London's water bailiffs enforced rights of navigation thereafter.

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 in America, Parliament hurriedly granted powers to intern foreign terror suspects without trial.

The Palestinian Authority was established by agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization and granted powers that fall far short of those of a state.

Eight people have died in protests by southern Nepalese demanding the change over the past couple of weeks.King HugoVenezuela's National Assembly granted powers to President Hugo Chávez to legislate by decree for the next 18 months.

The chancellors and boards would be granted powers delegated by the secretary of state, allowing them to investigate and change the sponsors and management of failing academies or free schools.

The American chess grandmaster was granted power of attorney over a company called Kettering Consultants Inc in October 2007.

No one voted for such people, yet they are granted power over our lives.

"I didn't make power, I was granted power, as any person who is successful in public life is granted it," he told The New York Times Magazine in 1979.

Second, since the ruler is granted power conditionally, it follows that the people have the power to withdraw their sanction if the proper conditions are not fulfilled.

In one case a woman stole her father's savings after being granted power of attorney, leaving his care home bills unpaid.