Sentence examples for legislative power for from inspiring English sources
Christmas Islanders cannot vote in state elections and are essentially governed by the Australian department for infrastructure, which holds overall legislative power for the island.
His categories are the traditional ones: If the people retain the legislative power for themselves, together with the power to appoint those who execute the laws, then "the Form of the Government is a perfect Democracy".
One example of this approach is the 'open method of coordination', rather than using legislative power for policy implementation.
The result was legislative power for Republicans and crushing defeats for Americans.
The generals quickly carried out the court order and claimed all legislative powers for themselves.
On Thursday, he wielded his extensive legislative powers for the first time and banned the pretrial detention of people accused of media-related crimes.
CAIRO — Wielding his extensive legislative powers for the first time, Egypt's president, Mohamed Morsi, on Thursday outlawed the pretrial detention of people accused of press crimes, effectively freeing one of his toughest critics, a newspaper editor who was detained just hours before the law was passed.
The Act gave Hitler's cabinet full legislative powers for four years and (with certain exceptions) allowed deviations from the constitution.
The purpose of the package was mainly to widen the Commonwealth's legislative powers for the purposes of post-war reconstruction.
MONTHS before Nassau voters handed legislative power to Democrats for the first time in 82 years, Bruce Nyman found himself shrugging off suggestions that he was missing a milestone in his political career by resigning as minority leader of the county Legislature to become city manager of Long Beach.
Always pressing Denmark for self-government, he undoubtedly influenced the granting by Denmark in 1874 of a constitution that provided for Iceland's control of its finances and for legislative power shared with the Danish crown.
