Neither Mr. Pritchard nor Mr. Li is empowered by his government to make major decisions.
Created in 1984, the group is empowered by Congress to decide which treatments should be labeled "preventive".
Already NASA, which is empowered by Congress to pay its scientists more than other government agencies may, has been sucking talent away from other bodies.
The commission, which is empowered by both states' legislatures, hoped to fill more jobs on the docks with people who live in the neighborhoods that surround them.
Faith delights in spreading lies in the island community; she is empowered by her mendacity and rewarded by the clues she subsequently harvests.
The librarian is empowered by the National Film Preservation Act to name 25 significant motion pictures to the registry each year.
She is empowered by her careful plotting, and suddenly weak again whenever her resolves cracks and she remembers the man she married.
It was short — two thousand words — and was limited to the points that the hearing officer, Mr. Fieldsteel, is empowered by the law to decide.
With so much success behind him, Parcells is the rare leader who is empowered by his own myth, freeing him to take chances others would never put in their playbooks.
Wired magazine, the liberationists' bible, would have us believe that every wired person on the planet will soon have an equal voice in things -- except, of course, that Wired itself is empowered by the lush advertising of corporate behemoths.
Administration lawyers have gone so far as to claim that the president as commander in chief is not bound by laws that ban torture because he is empowered by the Constitution to fight the nation's wars however he sees fit.
