Sentence examples for power to propose from inspiring English sources

Vieira de Mello hailed the Governing Council's power to propose policies and appoint interim diplomats and ministers.

The First Chamber can only approve or reject legislation but does not have the power to propose or amend it.

And in July, Iraq's high court ruled that members of Parliament no longer had the power to propose legislation.

The European Commission, which alone has the formal power to propose changes, is working on one set.

And shareholder votes are democratic only in the sense that Iranian Presidential elections are, since minority shareholders have little power to propose candidates or to remove misbehaving incumbents.

The other is a new commission with power to propose changes in Medicare that would be hard for Congress to overrule.

Parliament can veto government actions, but has few powers to propose solutions to problems.

Mr. Obama called on lawmakers to grant him broad new powers to propose mergers of agencies, which Congress would then have to approve or reject in an up-or-down vote.

The objective of the present paper is to depict the role and interests of key stakeholders and how their power to contest proposed reforms has shaped the agenda setting and policy formulation for the proposed NHIS in Uganda.

Moreover, there is the European parliament, elected by the citizens of the member states, which has the power to send proposed legislation back to the Brussels bureaucracy.

Assuming it is passed by the Senate, it would be reviewed by the Constitutional Council, which has the power to reject proposed legislation, something that happens relatively infrequently.