Sentence examples for powerful department from inspiring English sources

Each exerted an easy domination over Whitehall's brainiest and most powerful department.

By then, Popal was in charge of the powerful department of local governance.

In March it was revealed that the most powerful department in government had its head shoved firmly in the sand.

Under Richard Nixon, Mr Kissinger created a powerful department which brutally sidelined the defence and state departments, not to mention the CIA.

Retail has changed as well, and the biggest competitor a store like Kirna Zabête faces today is not a powerful department store, but the online retailer Net-a-Porter.

Senior Lib Dems also say that next time, the party will seek to control at least one big, powerful department rather than spreading its ministerial weight thinly, as it has done in the current government.

"It can be run as a loose coalition of powerful departments, or by a director who directs.

The services and resources of powerful departments and agencies, from trade and aid to the state department and the US armed forces, are his to command.

Various officials, including General Dostum, an Uzbek, have complained that the three most powerful departments -- interior, defense and foreign -- went to the Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance.

Anderson also said that the two government departments most directly involved with climate change policy were like "small dogs yapping at the heels" of more powerful departments, such as that run by the business secretary, Lord Mandelson.

The locals call it "enracinement" (putting down roots); the party establishes elected representatives in towns and villages with an eye on the larger, more powerful departments and regions, and presumably further down the line, parliamentary constituencies.