Sentence examples for powers to adopt from inspiring English sources

The demonstrators "called on the political powers to adopt a peaceful dialogue to end the current crisis and maintain the nation's unity and security," Saba said.

But his somber plea for the major nuclear powers to adopt an abolitionist agenda before the minor nuclear players do us all in, written well before Sept. 11 shattered our false sense of security, comes freighted with a poignant urgency.

Substantive legitimate expectation does not intrude upon the executive's policy-making powers, as it is for public authorities, acting within their statutory powers, to adopt or change policies.

Obama can still use his executive powers to adopt rules that will help improve the lives of most Americans even in the face of Tuesday's election results.

Speaking in Cairo on Sunday, Brahimi called on world powers to adopt a U.N. Security Council resolution based on an understanding brokered by Annan in Geneva in June which called for the establishment of a transitional government in Syria.

California is the only state with the power to adopt emissions controls.

The typical statutory scheme vests a given local governmental body with the power to adopt a zoning plan for the region under its control.

This gives the courts the power to adopt an interpretation of legislation that may not be the obvious or natural one, but that gives due respect to the fundamental rights that parliament is deemed to have intended to be protected.

The lease, which is a contract between the co-op and the tenant/shareholder, usually gives the board of directors the power to adopt new house rules without the consent of the shareholders, Mr. Zangwill said.

Dismayed by the judge's ruling partly blocking the plan, Mr. Bloomberg, Mr. Villaraigosa and Mr. Booker are pressing Congress to amend truck-deregulation law so that local ports would have greater power to adopt environmental and safety rules, including ones like the suspended employee mandate in Los Angeles.

The main character possesses the power to adopt the abilities of other superhumans.