While Dick Cheney has been working on increasing the powers of the Vice-President, George W. Bush has all but made the V.P.'s greatest responsibility obsolete: misspeaking.
He recalled that it was Margaret Thatcher, as Prime Minister, who signed the Single European Act increasing the powers of Brussels to complete the EU single market.
Parke, a former UN lawyer, has been a frequent critic of the positions adopted by Australia's main political parties on asylum seeker policy and laws increasing the powers of security agencies in the name of counter-terrorism.
Brandis made his comparison to the cold war as the Senate debated the government's first national security bill, increasing the powers of intelligence agencies and criminalising disclosure of information about special intelligence agencies.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has sympathized and has called for comprehensive changes, including dissolving the Long Island Power Authority and increasing the powers of the state's main regulator of utilities, the Public Service Commission.
In the Netherlands, where some members of the Hofstad group were initially acquitted for all crimes but then rearrested, that will shortly mean increasing the powers of arrest and admitting evidence from the intelligence agencies and anonymous sources.
