Sentence examples for invoke powers from inspiring English sources

Maduro hopes the state of emergency will allow him to invoke powers to help stabilise the country and "confront all the international and national threats against our fatherland in this moment".

Neighborhood opposition to the project has ranged from anger at the suggestion that the state may invoke powers of eminent domain to the argument that a privately owned real-estate development is not the best use of the land, a large chunk of which is owned by the M.T.A., and will alter the character of the neighborhood.

This wasn't for effect or to invoke power play; he had other things on his mind.

Artistry and imagination are by no means secondary, especially at Chanel and Dior, but in a setting like Versailles, before an audience that includes media and entertainment figures (Harvey Weinstein, Pedro Almodóvar), these qualities also serve to invoke power.

Soon after his inauguration, Uribe declared a state of emergency and invoked powers to expand Colombia's military and police forces.

Using only rarely invoked powers, the committee's chairman, John Whittingdale, responded by ordering that the Murdochs be presented with formal summonses to appear.

The previous week the White House invoked powers that President Obama himself had previously claimed to lack, unilaterally revising the nation's immigration laws by promising to stop enforcing them against a particularly sympathetic population.

On Wednesday, Bud Selig, the commissioner in charge of Major League Baseball, the sport's governing body, announced that he had decided to make use of rarely invoked powers to seize control of "all business and day-to-day operations" at the Dodgers from unpopular and financially troubled owner Frank McCourt.

Gira's words invoked power and humiliation, and if he could get his band to turn those abstract ideas into concrete sensations so much the better.

The reduction of the energy consumption in the proposed algorithm is achieved by considering rings with unequal widths and invoking power control algorithms within each ring.

He cautioned, however, that the government might have to invoke special powers to prevent what he called "totally inappropriate" financial behavior.