Sentence examples for of its powers from inspiring English sources

The new chancellor had granted the Bank independence but had stripped it of its powers to regulate the city.

Members of Congress threatened to strip the F.C.C. of some of its powers if it enacted the rules with the full weight of its legal authority.

An independent Scotland would have to give up some of its powers if it wanted to keep sterling, Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said.

It delegates some of its powers to the Secretariat and the Politburo when it is not in session.

But a soul is neither constructed out of its powers, nor does it appear to be separable into freestanding parts: the powers must be powers of a soul.

Word of its powers was slow to spread, and it didn't really reach the rest of Western civilization en masse until some two decades later.

However, it has only made limited use of its powers to intervene and individual officers have not been held to account for their performance.

That means the regulator considers that the information Tesco sent it in September on its accounts warrants the full use of its powers.

In August, he sidelined Egypt's once-powerful military by sacking its longtime leaders and taking away many of its powers.

Constitutional changes have stripped parliament of many of its powers.

The Afghan state is weak, yet too many of its powers are vested in the president.