Sentence examples for policy power from inspiring English sources

The position is mostly administrative and has no policy power, as both Huckabees were at pains to note.

Money is needed to patch the fiscal hole burned by an unsustainable energy policy: power plants that run on imported fuel oil.

Winner of the policy power struggle within the National Security Council will be (a) Secretary of State Colin Powell's "smart multilateralism"; (b) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's "compassionate unilateralism"; (c) National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's "inscrutable Mona Lisa-ism".

Meanwhile, policy power grew so concentrated in a secretive White House that the Joint Chiefs of Staff began their own espionage program against Kissinger, the so-called admirals' spy ring of 1971.

BRUSSELS — Struck by how rarely European Union foreign ministers focus on strategy during their monthly meetings, the Finnish foreign minister Alex Stubb asked officials to check how often he and his counterparts had discussed the role of China as a foreign policy power.

He says that executives at TEPCO and the other oligopolistic electricity utilities have stifled argument about Japan's nuclear-energy programme, both by pouring money into politics and by muffling the media through their huge advertising budgets.Yet those anxious for change note approvingly that even on energy policy, power has now shifted slightly towards local and regional governments.

Historically, the main driving force for immigration to this country has been government policy powered by an economic necessity within the UK.

The system of LEAs is the means to keep management and policy powers at regional level while assuring national guarantees.

They describe historical developments in three European countries: Germany, Denmark, and The Netherlands, placing it within the institutional context of the policies, power structures and energy discourses of each country.

A blend of factors — including high unemployment especially of youth, international economic policies, power politics, frustration from decades of living under authoritarian and corrupt regimes — have fueled conflicts.

In addition, regulators or 'governors', people who use policies, power or other governance mechanisms (including managers and administrators), can be considered as other individual 'players' in the contest.