Sentence examples for need powers from inspiring English sources

Councils need powers to resume our role as a major builder of affordable homes".

Does the secretary of state really need powers of "entry and search"?

The police and security services work hard to safeguard our national security, and they need powers to prevent terrorism.

Across Europe, investigators need powers to inhibit terror financing and to trace networks of jihadis through e-mail addresses and mobile phone numbers.

But to root out doping, that independent body would need powers that no organisation, not even Interpol, has ever been granted: namely, the power to sneak unannounced into sovereign nations and rumble doping programmes that are institutionalised and centrally controlled.

"Councils, with their school place-planning duties, also need powers to compel academies to expand where this cannot be achieved by negotiation, so no child is without a school place".

You need power".

Need power tools?

You always need power to do politics.

We don't need power.

"We need power to hire and fire.