Sentence examples for power of the office from inspiring English sources

Empowered to nominate all constitutional officers by the state's first constitution, that power of the office of the governor has been reduced in subsequent constitutions, as more of those offices became elective.

Yet the power of the office remains extra large.

The power of the office has waxed and waned since its founding.

At the same time, Obama should stop downplaying the power of the office he holds.

But he noted that there are limits to the power of the office.

Only the unconstrained power of the office is in the constitution; the restrictions are left in the laws.

On using the powers of the office to build relations with legislators: Q.

The solution to an imperial presidency, Reed says, isn't to restrict the institutional powers of the office.

In most of these countries, the constitutionally defined powers of the office are similar to those of the president of the United States.

Within hours of President Kennedy's assassination, Johnson was sworn in as president, without the pomp of an inauguration, but with all the powers of the office.

Last winter he warned of grave trouble if his country elected a president before defining the powers of the office in a new constitution.