Sentence examples for law empowered from inspiring English sources

His office said he had jurisdiction to get involved in the matter because New York State law empowered him to enforce statutes barring deceptive trade practices.

It is the first district to be taken into receivership after a 2010 law empowered the state board of education to take such action on "chronically underperforming" schools.

In the United States, a 2009 law empowered the Food and Drug Administration to require large graphic and text warnings on the top half of the front and back of cigarette packs.

The law empowered the FSB to issue official warnings to individuals who were "creating the conditions" for crimes, and anyone obstructing an FSB officer would face a fine or up to 15 days' detention.

Also, the principle of "rule of law" empowered them with legitimacy in either formal or informal institutionalized participation.

The law empowered FDA to regulate supplements if they pose a "significant or unreasonable risk of illness" but also made the task tricky.

Its law empowers the governor to withhold money from agencies that fail to comply with it.

The law empowers police officers to lock up women who deliver babies with NAS.

His solutions are sensible: land reforms, social-infrastructure investment, the rule of law, empowering women, freeing minds.

But a new financial law empowers the BCE to issue "electronic money … equivalent and convertible to dollars".

In 1973, President Richard M. Nixon signed a home-rule law empowering Washington to elect a mayor and council.