Sentence examples for powers of offices from inspiring English sources

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.

When an emergency manager is in place, the governing body and chief administrative officer of the unit of local government are prohibited from exercising any of their powers of offices without written approval of the emergency manager, and their compensation and benefits are eliminated.

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 installations were mainly for water pumping, streetlight applications, and powering of offices.

Like his tribune authority, the granting of consular powers to him was another instance of holding power of offices he did not actually hold.

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.