Sentence examples for lawmakers power from inspiring English sources

Whether lawmakers' power play will work remains to be seen.

In the month since the ruling PSUV party suffered a crushing defeat in December's elections, Maduro has managed to tighten his control and limit the lawmakers' power.

Already, the courts have limited lawmakers' power to remove judges, overturned a law meant to stabilize the economy and ratified an emergency decree that was rejected by legislators on the grounds that it overstepped Mr. Maduro's authority.

One prominent Democratic lawmaker told me Obama's problem is that he is not insecure — he always believes he is the smartest person in any room and never feels the sense of panic that makes a good politician run scared all the time, frenetically wooing lawmakers, power brokers, adversaries and voters as if the next election were a week away.

Munger's first $100,000 donation was to back a Schwarzenegger proposal to take away state lawmakers' power to draw election maps.

Munger went on to spend $14.2 million on other redistricting overhaul measures that succeeded, but an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling threatens to restore lawmakers' power over congressional maps.

Thirty-five years under a (Colorado) dictatorship inspired a constitution granting Paraguay's lawmakers powers rarely seen in countries with directly elected presidents.

That is a politically thorny task that could result in some lawmakers' losing power and others gaining it.

Effective revamping of the congeries of rival committees and subcommittees must entail an upending of most lawmakers' personal power bases.

The plans for transferring many of these organizations met resistance, primarily from lawmakers whose power is based on their oversight of the departments that currently house the agencies.

In an attempt to defuse the situation, Park has granted lawmakers the power to name her new prime minister, a move considered a major political concession.