Sentence examples for power to use force from inspiring English sources

The president's power to use force has grown enormously since the founding.

Congress is likely to grant the president the power to use force that he seeks.

"Police have the power to use force against citizens when they have to – using handcuffs, arm restraints, leg restraints, pepper spray, batons.

Because of the continual raids and wars between segments, a chieftainship, with the power to use force to maintain peace, was established.

The power to use force to execute a warrant, introduced in September, was drawn on once in the reporting period, by a police officer assisting Asio during a search, according to a separate annual report by the intelligence watchdog.

"If the Fourth and Fifth Amendments mean anything at all, surely they mean there are limits to the government's power to use force against its own citizens," Mr. Jaffer said.

"With the high levels of secrecy in detention centres, giving guards unchecked powers to use force is a recipe for further cover ups of abuse and misconduct" she said, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Though vested with the power to use deadly force, cops have been treated like schoolchildren.

Obama said he would not sign any proposed expansion of the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, which gives the president the power to use military force against al-Qaeda.

It followed a 98-to-0 vote in the Senate to give President Bush the power to use "all necessary and appropriate force" to respond to the terror attacks on the United States this week.

It circulated a draft resolution, urging the 15-member Security Council to give the force the power to "use all necessary means" to tackle instability in the region.