Sentence examples for policy powers from inspiring English sources

It is simply not the case, as Dean insists, that the Constitution assigns to Congress "a preponderance of foreign policy powers" or "the predominant role in matters of war".

In extracts released before his speech, Brown said those reforms would require the carefully constructed deal by the Smith commission to give Holyrood extra tax and policy powers after the 2014 independence referendum would also need to be ripped up.

The crisis management of the past three years has essentially seen Berlin, Brussels, and others resort to technocratic fixes in an incremental process of pooling economic and fiscal policy powers in the eurozone.

Mr. Bush is considering the veto, the White House said, because the sanctions against chemical-weapons makers and users are mandatory, leaving the President no legal discretion in punishing foreign violators and therefore reducing his foreign policy powers.

The US Congress passed a law in 1995 that described Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and said it should not be divided, but successive Republican and Democratic presidents have used their foreign policy powers to maintain the US embassy in Tel Aviv and to back negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on the status of Jerusalem.

Another concern for Germany is that the ECB's new supervisory powers should be strictly separate from its existing monetary policy powers - so that, for example, the ECB will not be tempted in future to set interest rates too low in order to help out banks that are in trouble.

His research interests include energy technology and policy, power systems, and design for resource-constrained settings.

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.

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

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.