Sentence examples for has claimed power from inspiring English sources

More broadly, Mr. Ashcroft has claimed power to detain non-citizens even when immigration judges order them released.

TEYIT, Kyrgyzstan — The president of this strategically important country, who was forced from the capital last week in bloody rioting, insisted in an interview on Sunday that he retained popular support, and he mocked the interim government that has claimed power.

Article III-182, as it emerged from the convention, provided that "the Union shall contribute to the promotion of European sporting issues" and develop the "European dimension in sport", as well as "protecting the physical and moral integrity of sportsmen" (best of luck, on this last point).This is the first time the EU has claimed power over sport in its basic legal documents.

The president has claimed powers above and beyond those King George III exercised, Mr. Sessions hyperbolized.

"Congress has delegated a great deal of power to the President, Presidents have claimed power under the Constitution, and Congress has acquiesced".

President Bush has claimed broad power to conduct the war against al Qaeda and said that questions about the detention of suspected terrorists, their interrogation, trial and punishment are matters for him to decide as commander in chief.

The president has claimed the power to thus seize and hold any American whom he designates an "enemy combatant". And the basis of the designation, administration lawyers argue, is not subject to effective review in any court.

Bush has claimed the unilateral power to order the mistreatment of prisoners and the wiretapping of Americans.

Macdonald has claimed that the powers could be used against "a busker outside a shopping centre, or a street preacher proclaiming the end of days to passersby, who may all be capable of causing nuisance and annoyance to some person.

The violence in Assam, rooted in a complex local dispute over land, immigration and political power, has claimed at least 78 lives as more than 14,000 homes have been burned.

The batteries work even after they've been shot through with bullets, Xtreme Power has claimed.