Sentence examples for power to commit from inspiring English sources
"If the president has commander-in-chief power to commit torture," Dean Koh said, "he has the power to commit genocide, to sanction slavery, to promote apartheid, to license summary execution".
It was the last time a coroner had the power to commit a murder to crown court.
But Kadet Bertin, Ivory Coast's defense minister, rejected the denial and called on France, the country's former colonial power, to commit more troops to his country's defense.
Parlow was dangerous every time she got near the opposing penalty area, forcing the Power to commit a foul just about every time she had the ball within striking distance.
If a sitting President, rather than a candidate, had called for a foreign power to commit an act of espionage in order to influence the outcome of an election, "it would be an impeachable act," Wilentz said.
In another book, "Madness and the Criminal Law University of Chicago Pressss, 1983), Dr. Morris, maintaining that the courts' power to imprison should not overlap with a power to commit, sided with those who wanted to do away with insanity as a ground for acquittal.
Seven years on, there is much greater respect for the American military, its staying power, its ability to commit massive resources and readiness to rethink tactics.There is also realism among most ordinary British voters, who are not filled with imperial nostalgia, whatever Euro-grandees suspect.
The culmination of his tenure came last December in Denmark, where he and many others tried — and failed — to get world powers to commit to binding cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
It's that isolation that allowed the great powers to commit economic and military misadventures in the region, from depleting phosphate stocks in Kiribati and Naura to nuclear testing in French Polynesia and the Marshall Islands.
Not willing (or don't have the man-power) to commit to improvements?
The North Korean missile launch just hours before President Obama's speech underscored the urgency for all the nuclear powers to commit to this effort.
