Sentence examples for greater powers from from inspiring English sources

Instead, they headed towards parliament which with every passing year accumulated greater powers from locally elected councillors and civic institutions.

The bill gives the Australian taxation office greater powers from January to target multinational companies using "artificial or contrived arrangements" to avoid their domestic tax obligations.

The irony of Holyrood politicians arguing for the devolution of greater powers from Westminster while at the same time undermining local government in Scotland has not been lost on council leaders.

Khan has called for greater powers from government to act on wood-burning after he discovered it contributed half of the pollution during a dirty air episode in January.

Polls show that Catalans are determined to have their say, though a plebiscite might well produce more votes for devolving greater powers from Madrid than for outright independence.Less accommodating than the British towards the Scots, Mariano Rajoy, Spain's prime minister, is denying Catalans the referendum on independence that their premier, Artur Mas, has promised.

Miller believes many areas could negotiate more effectively to get greater power from central government.

You can discover the truth of Breen's greater power from Urwand's book, but only by patient deduction.

So Doncaster has to find ways of spending more efficiently and wresting greater power from central government, through devolution deals, she says.

In France the bailli had much greater power; from the 13th to the 15th century they were the principal agents of the king and his growing central administration for countering feudalism.

She seeks greater power from Denmark to exploit the country's mineral resources.

20th-century international relations, history of the relations between states, especially the great powers, from approximately 1900 to 2000.