Sentence examples for hand power over from inspiring English sources

"Who should I hand power over to?

Olusegun Obasanjo is supposed to hand power over to his elected successor, the first such transition since independence in 1960.

This would be the first time a full-term elected government would hand power over to a fairly elected new administration.

But, he added, "what we want -- and in our national security interest -- is to hand power over to an Afghanistan that is able to take control of its own security".

See articleWith demonstrations continuing in Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country's president, announced that he would step down in 2013 when his current term expires and that he would not hand power over to his son.

Some politicians from the royalist establishment, including in the Democrat Party that is loosely affiliated with it, seem to have thought that the junta would quickly hand power over to them, as happened after the previous coup.

Corbyn told the Guardian he would oppose Sturgeon's call for the UK government to hand powers over business taxes to the Scottish parliament, as that would allow the SNP to cut corporation tax to compete with England's rates.

Traoré handed power over to Keïta, who was sworn in on September 4, 2013.

Mr. Mubarak handed power over to the country's well-respected military, which has promised political reforms.

11 February – Mubarak resigns and hands power over to the military.

And it also rejects the notion of handing power over to remnants of the old [Mubarak] regime".