Sentence examples for powers of governance from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday, China announced it was withdrawing most of its workers from Syria, reflecting what appeared to be declining confidence in Mr. Assad's powers of governance.

Our constitutional system is premised on the assumption that elected officials should not use the powers of governance in order to manipulate the rules of the game to ensure their own perpetuation in power.

Despite Sirisena's former status as a prominent official in the ruling government and his popularity with the Sinhala Buddhist majority, party leaders said that a vote for him was the only way to avert "Sri Lanka's inexorable move towards dictatorship and totalitarianism, with the Executive President becoming, in effect, the sole repository of all powers of governance".

Democracy theoretically puts the power of governance in the hands of the people.

He added that the revised rules would explicitly give the bishops such power through a clause that said, "At all times, the diocesan bishop has the executive power of governance through an administrative act to remove the offending cleric from office, or to remove or restrict his faculties, and to limit his exercise of priestly ministry".

They are the ancestors of those who now demand limits on the state's authority in the name of human rights, of the right to quell genocide and disaster and deliver relief from the outside, of an international criminal court, and of a supranational entity that assumes power of governance over economic, and now, maybe, military affairs.

We have identified three core predictors of good governance: 1) the jurisdiction/authority of governance groups; 2) the skills and knowledge of governance groups, as well as their resources and motivation to make and enforce rules; and 3) the power of governance groups to exert legitimate authority and not be undermined by other less legitimate but more politically or economically powerful actors.

Mr. Weinstein pointed out that the court explicitly recognized "that the broad powers of cooperative governance carry the potential for abuse".

He also proposed that the union acquire greater powers of economic governance, suggesting sanctions against nations that fail to overhaul their economies.

Mr. Zapatero proposed that the E.U. acquire greater powers of economic governance, suggesting sanctions against nations that fail to follow through on economic reforms.

The new powers of economic governance and financial supervision the European Commission and the European Central Bank gained as a result of the euro-zone debt crisis raise awkward questions of democratic accountability and political legitimacy.