Sentence examples for in powers over from inspiring English sources

Their financial dependence on a mean old Chancellor severely limits their room for manoeuvre - not to mention their scope for giving policy expression to ideological convictions - but they do have serious transport muscle, cash for delivering significant housing and other development schemes and hefty "call in" powers over large planning decisions.

The input signal increases in power over time (traces) and is visible by the stepwise square-shaped signals in the spectrogram.

The OQLF has reported steady increases in the number of inspections over the past three years, when the non-separatist Liberals were in power, with over 4,000 in 2011-12 alone.

Initially, designs called for a 14 percent increase in power to over the of the preceding class.

"Freedom in the Levant is code for one community getting in power over another community.

Slate notes that older men (ie those in power over young women) find it intensely annoying.

Across the country, Democrats are scrambling to deflect voters' unhappiness with the party in power over the sputtering economy.

Over lunch several years ago, Richard Helms noted that a shift in power over the intelligence community, from the C.I.A. to the Pentagon, had begun even before his tenure.

Democracy, he said, in an echo of Tony Benn, was about setting the terms for people in power over you and dismissing them when they failed you.

True to his risk-averse form, Netanyahu preferred the assurance of 18 months in power over the uncertainty of election – even when he was expected to win easily.

But the Flatiron steel was connected with air-powered tools, which could operate off one or two central compressors with little drop in power over distance.