Sentence examples for increased its powers from inspiring English sources

It has increased its powers with every EU treaty, including the fiscal compact; but it has seen no parallel growth in its legitimacy.

The Treasury has also increased its powers.

More commonly, the administration has increased its powers by asserting them.

Last year, recognising a crisis in the sport, the government changed the association's legal status, brought in outside experts on sumo and increased its powers over individual stables.

Thus antagonism soon arose between the new king and the Commons, and Parliament refused to vote him the right to levy tonnage and poundage (customs duties) except on conditions that increased its powers, though this right had been granted to previous monarchs for life.

In the elections held in June 2015, it had visibly increased its power, for the first time managing to get support from both Turkish and Kurdish voters.

Indeed, a consensus developed that a lack of clarity increased its power, by making it harder for investors to anticipate its decisions.

As America evolved from subsistence to commercial agriculture, an influential commercial class increased its power in nearly every colony.

So for now, the Hilles clan has been neutralized, Hamas has increased its power, Fatah leaders are seen as two-timing and indecisive, and Israel helped save the lives of some of its enemies.

In the name of a greener, cleaner Earth, Washington mightily increased its power to intervene in the daily lives of its citizens.

In fact, Big Oil has increased its power to manipulate prices at the production and refining level, because it has used the last few years to consolidate both vertically and horizontally.