Sentence examples for officials powers from inspiring English sources

Last month, the Arizona governor, Jan Brewer, signed legislation granting law enforcement officials powers to stop anyone anywhere in the state if they had a "reasonable suspicion" the person might be an illegal immigrant.

Indignation against the return of Baath Party officials powered their march.

It would also give a handful of state officials power over federal lands, which belong to all Americans.

That said, elected officials, power brokers and civic leaders do maintain a certain degree of protocol, if not decorum.

It will also give low-level officials power to seize and re-allocate farms regarded as under-utilised, giving owners just ten days to produce the relevant documentation.

But since any decision to start transferring low-level prisoners again will be made in Washington, prison officials' power to alleviate the crisis is limited.

The regional charters fall short of declaring independence, but supporters seek to give provincial officials power over natural gas royalties, agricultural policies and police forces.

According to China's reality of relation-based society, tax laws and regulations have a strong policy-based characteristic and government has a strong ability to determine companies' payable taxes and tax preference, which makes officials' power to create rent.

But that power, says Graciela Bensusán of the National Autonomous University, derived not from the president's official powers but from his position as head of the PRI "system".

Like all the Connecticut mayors indicted before him, Mr. Ganim is accused of abuse of his official powers.

And so far, not even the combined official powers of the Fed and Treasury have been able to stop the cascading disasters.