Sentence examples for powers in favour of from inspiring English sources

It curtailed the president's extensive powers in favour of parliament.

In fact he campaigned on the basis that if he were elected, he would renounce his powers in favour of the parliament.

It has failed to arrest the catastrophic decline in our wildlife, failed to resist the housebuilders trashing rare habitats and abandoned its regulatory powers in favour of useless voluntary agreements.

"But if it appeared necessary to overcome the crisis and to carry out constitutional reform, the essence of which would be to redistribute presidential powers in favour of the judiciary, parliament and civil society, then I would be ready to take on this part of the task".

This is a 21st-century struggle to re-balance power in favour of people.

That was the day Sisi made a speech that shifted the balance of power in favour of the hardliners.

All my life I have sought a government that would bring about the irreversible shift in balance of power in favour of working people.

It has not yet been published, so doubt remains on whether it reduces the president's power in favour of parliament, as the MDC wanted.

But in the circumstances both could be significant milestones on the path to Iran's future, shifting the balance of internal power in favour of greater change.

"This would open the door to a massive imbalance of power in favour of large copyright holding companies," said Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group.

As a result, in June 1976 it launched a large-scale intervention to redress the emerging imbalance of power in favour of the Christians.