Sentence examples for powers of office from inspiring English sources

Well aware of how English kings abused their powers of office, the colonists wanted to keep their new leaders on a short leash.

Austerity is always a hard sell, all the more so in Thailand, where politics runs on commercial lines: candidates buy votes to win election, and then abuse the powers of office to recoup their investment.

It added that he "embezzled an extremely large amount of public funds and abused his powers of office, causing heavy losses to the interests of the nation and the people in an extremely serious way".

The historian Werner Eck states: The sum of his power derived first of all from various powers of office delegated to him by the Senate and people, secondly from his immense private fortune, and thirdly from numerous patron-client relationships he established with individuals and groups throughout the Empire.

As many commentators have already noted, these efforts by Republicans to water down the powers of offices right after Democrats won them were pioneered in North Carolina.

Nor can it be asserted through power of office.

Stealing public funds, accepting bribes, using the power of office to persecute personal enemies these are felonies that should force someone out of politics.

[C6.] Lotus Creator Joins Microsoft Ray Ozzie, whose Lotus Notes software helped demonstrate the power of office PC networks in the early 1990's, has gone to work for Microsoft.

The Minister is attracted by the wealth and power of office, and appears to have little concern for his country or its people.

The formation of such groups is connected with the priests' services at shrines and their possession and manipulation of certain sacred objects and relics that are the sources of the priestly charisma (supernatural power) of office.

If the Greens want to have the power of office, as opposed to the liberty of perpetual opposition, they will need to get used to the grubby business of government, probably as part of a coalition.