Sentence examples for power to modify from inspiring English sources

(Do not choose "computer administrator" as the account type unless you want that person to have unlimited power to modify the computer's settings).

Much of the work concerned procedural delays and irregularities in local courts, but gradually the power to modify the operation of the rules of common law was asserted.

The governor had called a special session of the legislature to pass a law giving the state the power to modify it.

These community organizations would have the power to modify mortgages (including reducing principal) when doing so would bring in more money than foreclosure — particularly loans that are now current but are in danger of delinquency.

The decision returns to local officials the power to modify a plan that would have banned new road building and most logging on 60 million acres, or about one-third of the forests.

But the package does not include the one provision that consumer advocacy groups and some Democrats had initially been pushing for — giving bankruptcy judges the power to modify troubled borrowers' mortgages on their primary residences.

The Corsican legislature rejected an offer from Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, who offered the island unprecedented rights, including limited powers to modify laws voted in Paris.

If the public bodies bill is passed as drafted, ministers will still be given extensive Henry VIII powers to modify, merge or abolish specified public bodies, most of which were created by statute.

His bill would require the redistricting plan approved by the citizen panel to stand, taking away the county's current powers to modify it.

The November 1895 bill sought powers to modify the planned route of the tunnels at the Baker Street end of the line and extend them approximately 200 m beyond their previous end point at the south-eastern corner of Dorset Square to the south-eastern corner of Harewood Square.

Desranleau also craves the power to change space—"not to modify it architecturally, but to use that architecture towards your own advantage and map it and play with it: there's something very empowering about that," he confides.