Sentence examples for overriding powers from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, the Constitution also reserves major, overriding powers for unelected, military-controlled bodies — for example, the one tasked with overseeing a vast 20-year development plan.

The act thus provided for a union in which the federal government had general and overriding powers, while the provinces had particular and restricted ones.

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Armed with overriding powers, which he had been careful to obtain without formally infringing on the principle of legality, Hitler proceeded to carry out a revolution with the authority of the state on his side.

But because regional governments in semifederal states possess jurisdiction only over enumerated matters (and even here they are subject in part to the overriding powers of the central authorities), their actual role and political influence within the system largely depend on the tendency of the central government to buttress or to restrict their autonomy.

The episode exposed the moral weakness of the council majority, which failed to reprieve Nand Kumar, and convinced the Indians of Hastings' overriding power.

However, overriding power asymmetries have prevented a structural change in both the energy/transport and the agricultural sectors.

This was an age that gave overriding regulatory powers to the state, which sought to ensure that business activity was consonant with current mercantilist conceptions of national prosperity.

Hunt suggested on the same day in the Financial Times that government could use override powers in the 1978 Interpretation Act to usher out the Contract Rights Renewal system.

It was only during the last two years of the Giuliani administration that the Council started exercising its override powers more frequently, using the tactic four times in 2000 and seven times in 2001.

Over the mayor's vigorous opposition, the Council used its override powers to force through a law regulating removal of lead paint in thousands of city apartments with young children living in them, a measure that the Bloomberg administration said would cost the city $100 million in the next fiscal year.

Opponents fear Maduro's plan to create a powerful new legislative body called the Constituent Assembly later this month will bring the once prosperous country of 30 million a step closer to dictatorship by boosting the president's executive powers, and overriding the existing powers of parliament.