Sentence examples for hand powers over from inspiring English sources

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.

"The Centre for Cities report uses data up to September 2012, and illustrates exactly what the Government was saying at the time – that it is essential to hand powers over to cities so that they can take control of their own destinies.

"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.

Economically broken, starving and politically isolated, this dark kingdom was in the midst of preparations to hand power over to his not-yet-30-year-old son, the untested Kim Jong-un.

YEMEN The opposition proposed a transition plan Saturday for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to hand power over to a vice president while steps are taken toward a national unity government and new elections, Reuters said.

While pressuring Mr. Montesinos to resign, Mr. Fujimori announced that he would serve only one year of his third five-year term and then hand power over to a new president to be elected next April and inaugurated in July.