Sentence examples for handed over significant from inspiring English sources
He has handed over significant powers designed to protect the environment to a state government committed to fast-tracking the rapid expansion of coal and gas projects.
But Israel has been doing just that for the last decade, by handing over significant land and authority.
Detective Constable Darrin Carey said: "These charges come following a lengthy investigation into an alleged scam where women are asked to hand over significant amounts of cash after meeting men on the Match.com dating website.
Kidnapping people for ransom is a pervasive problem in this country, although victims have typically been prosperous people with bank accounts that can be emptied at the nearest A.T.M., or those with relatives willing to hand over significant sums to save them.
As in other dioceses, many questions remained about just what information was being handed over and how significant it was.
Few executives seem to have taken Mr. Wadhwa's stance, refusing to hand over a significant share of their company, but others have bristled at the arrangement.
Cable said he would be bringing forward legislation in the autumn to sell off a portion of the Royal Mail, but also to hand over a significant chunk of the service to employees – at least 10% – in an attempt to inject capital into the service but also to counterbalance the partial sell-off with more say for the company's workers.
"The rendition program was all about handing over these significant figures related to Al Qaeda so they could torture them and get the information they wanted," said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director of Human Rights Watch, who studied the documents in the intelligence headquarters in downtown Tripoli.
In addition, a new bill, which is currently under consideration in the Belgian parliament to amend the Act of 2008, would hand over a significant measure of control of the tissue transplantation field to industry.
A Merseyside Police spokesperson said: "Merseyside Police can confirm that the force handed over a significant amount of material from the investigation to Mr Gilfoyle's legal representatives in August 2010.
