Sentence examples for powers exercise from inspiring English sources

However, the Council was theoretically allowed to withdraw these powers, exercise them directly, or impose conditions on their use.

It was also the shortest ocean link between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean; a vital route for trading nations, helping European powers exercise control over their colonies.

The frightening effects of warrantless surveillance are somewhat blunted insofar as those entrusted with such awesome powers exercise them responsibly; however, establishing secretive, unchecked mechanisms of state monitoring is essentially an invitation to abuse.

Initially at least, the powers exercised by the new assembly were slated to be relatively minor.

It did not escape us that these external powers exercised a new form of political control over our affairs.

Several key crown prerogative powers, exercised by ministers without reference to parliament on behalf of the monarchy, have now been put on a statutory footing.

The majority of the powers exercised by the lieutenant governor are statutory and have been assigned by the Indiana General Assembly.

The issue is how those with power exercise it and what we as citizens perceive as the outcomes of the use of that power.

In practice, these forms of power exercise are mostly interrelated.

"You didn't think professional workers would come out to a mind power exercise like this, did you?" he said.

Because so many of today's challenges are global, they demand a global response — collective power exercised in powerful partnership.