Sentence examples for overarching powers from inspiring English sources

Whereas colonial authorities initially attempted to destroy the overarching powers of the African kings and paramounts, who had led the military resistance to colonialism and symbolized the cohesion of their people, the role of intermediate chiefs in providing a cheap administrative infrastructure was soon recognized.

In recent years, he had run the U.N. administrations in Kosovo and East Timor, where he had been invested with virtually the same overarching powers that L. Paul Bremer, the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, had been given in Iraq.

The ayatollah has used his overarching powers to block many of the democratic reforms favored by President Khatami.

The European Union says it does not want to duplicate the overarching powers and cumbersome bureaucracy that the United Nations mission has had in Kosovo, which at one stage totaled 11,000 people, including international police officers.

Octavian's power was now unassailable and in 27 BC the Roman Senate formally granted him overarching power and the new title Augustus, effectively marking the end of the Roman Republic.

In my scholarly field of political theory, radical critiques of constitutional democracy (whether Marxist, Foucauldian, feminist, Freudian, or post-structuralist) commonly contend that the rule of law is a sham, a pretense, a mere cover for underlying or overarching power interests.

"We will look at the last six years and ask: Did our changes help?" The relatively minor changes will do little to alter the overarching power the mayor has over the city schools.

The broadcasters didn't hold their horses long enough to learn that Roberts was going on to say that the overarching constitutional power of Congress to levy taxation trumped this earlier finding, in fact legitimized the law's 'individual mandate' -- and thus the Act survived.

That's because the shopping spree demands an overarching infrastructure to power functions such as logistics and payments.

The existing system of three separate surveillance and intercept commissioners is to be replaced by one overarching investigatory powers commissioner.

I think the overarching themes here are power and superiority, rather than slickness.