Sentence examples for has sweeping powers from inspiring English sources
Created in 2007 under Labour's Mental Capacity Act, the court has sweeping powers to decide the fate of vulnerable people.
The governor has sweeping powers to build and seize plants, and he has, in effect, taken over the state's ISO.
He has sweeping powers unheard of in the United States and unequaled in any other European state.
A continent goes to war The cost of Kabila A diplomatic casualty Thank Allah for the Gulfies ReprintsAt present Mr Kabila has sweeping powers and rules by decree.
There is a strong movement for historical preservation, served by the private National Trust of Australia (NSW) and by the state Heritage Council, which has sweeping powers to prevent demolition or alteration of buildings identified as having historical value.
Wolfgang Petritsch, the Austrian diplomat who has sweeping powers as the high representative of the foreign nations who bankroll Bosnia, put an end to arguments and obstructions last month by signing an order to establish the cemetery.
Mr. Volcker -- who has sweeping power to order changes at Andersen -- is considering tighter controls throughout the firm, according to people who have talked with him.
Though the Federal Reserve has sweeping power to create money and lend it out, experts said it was normally prohibited from buying assets that could lose money.
Mr. Khatami has repeatedly used the threat of resignation in clashes between his reform-minded government and the Guardian Council, a 12-member body dominated by clerics that has sweeping power in Iran.
But it would have sweeping powers.
