Sentence examples for limited say from inspiring English sources

The only approximately democratic elections are to village councils, which have limited say even over village affairs: expanding that process, too, has become stalled.

No, wait... Japan and the uses of adversity ReprintsThe relatives may have had limited say: a lawyer claims officials harangued them for hours to agree to the pardon.

In a frank and provocative statement, the company's leaders argued that companies cannot manage for the long term unless investors and analysts have limited say in the way they are run.

Five months after they began talking about it, Russia and NATO are on the lip of an agreement to give the Kremlin a real, if limited, say in the policies of its old Atlantic enemy.

In Texas, as in much of America, property owners do not always own the "mineral rights" – the rights to underground resources – so typically have limited say over how they are developed.

The priesthood was a subsequent tweak, and the same goes for the all-male, celibate nature of the Roman Catholic clergy and the autocratic hierarchy that this clergy inhabits, an unresponsive government whose subjects — the laity — have limited say.

The ability of humans to fix the situation is limited, said Mr. Nevin of the International Joint Commission.

"Government resources always will be limited," said Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican.

"Their targets are limited," said Ashok Kumar, an analyst with Collins Stewart.

But these models are limited, says ecologist Jordi Bascompte.

'If you wanted a night out, the options were limited,' says Martin O'Sullivan, a local Sydneysider.