Sentence examples for powers at home from inspiring English sources

The Home Secretary's attempts to strengthen surveillance powers at home runs counter to her party's traditions.

It's estimated that two million people from Africa took part in the war, fighting for colonial powers at home – where fronts spanned north to south, east to west – and abroad.

The president has gained international notoriety over the past 18 months for his populist rhetoric, most notably his predictions of the ultimate demise of the state of Israel, and he has used his powers at home to wrest some control over the country's finances and administration from established clerical interests.

Second, it took place amid a heated debate over the Conservative government's decision to increase anti-terrorist powers at home and to join the military campaign led by the United States against Islamic State in Iraq.Mr Harper chose to interpret the shooting as part of a broader bid by terrorist groups to bring "their savagery to our shores".

Once again, politicians itch to assume greater powers at home, whether it is stripping murderous British jihadis of their rights as citizens or – as Boris Johnson casually suggested this summer – scrapping the presumption of innocence for anyone caught travelling to Iraq or Syria without prior notice, leaving them presumed guilty of terrorist intent unless they can prove otherwise.

Putin did not content himself with using those powers at home, but also found foreign adventures - especially in the Crimea - to be additional tools to boost Russian nationalism in a populist way and to harness this to expand his dictatorial powers.

And if it seems counterintuitive to create a system that requires power to communicate about power failures, John F. Miksad, Con Ed's senior vice president of electric operations, said customers who did not have power at home checked the site while at work or used battery-powered devices equipped with wireless cards.

"We don't have any power at home," he said.

Some officers themselves may be without power at home, compounding the strain.

The fact that their governments had done so gave dissidents' appeals to international human rights tremendous power at home.

But others cautioned that his preoccupation with consolidating power at home would leave him with little flexibility.