Sentence examples for powers to decide from inspiring English sources

Created in 2007 under Labour's Mental Capacity Act, the court has sweeping powers to decide the fate of vulnerable people.

It cautioned that Ms Morgan was giving politicians "very wide powers" to decide what is taught in schools and was "closing down" public debate.

THIS week the Law Lords decided that ministers should be stripped of their powers to decide how long murderers should spend in jail.

The move by Parliament was partly a bid to assert new powers to decide issues concerning European security jointly with E.U. governments.

The move by the European Parliament was partly a bid to assert new powers to decide issues concerning European security jointly with E.U. governments.

It would be easier to give Mr Straw the benefit of the doubt if he had accepted the argument that the lord chief justice needed explicit powers to decide whether an inquest could be held in private.

They simply ceded their power to decide to the expert.

Nevertheless, they had the power to decide life or death.

They are the ones with the power to decide.

Parliament alone, they argue, has the power to decide.

The sons pleaded for the family to retain the power to decide their mother's fate.