Sentence examples for powers to decree from inspiring English sources

The demonstration today was called by Venezuela's largest opposition party, the centrist Democratic Action, to protest the president's use of special legislative powers to decree far-reaching economic changes without consultation.

I challenge them to prove it" But prosecutors said Ms de Souza would have felt "all powerful" and believed she "had the power to decree the moment when a victim would die".

It couldn't just be decreed because no one has the power to decree it," she said.

The archbishop of Canterbury historically has not had the power to decree policy in the Anglican Communion, but has determined which churches belonged to it.

The package of amendments would also give the president unchecked power to decree a state of emergency and suspend basic rights indefinitely.

Clearly if this were a forgery, the church would have no power to decree rites nor authority in controversies of faith.

The Bundestag - the lower house of the German parliament - has the power to decree that someone addressing it has immunity but it is not clear whether Mr Snowden would get legal protection in Germany.

In Priestcraft in Perfection, 1710, and An Historical and Critical Essay on the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England, 1724, Collins attacks the first clause of Article 20 of the 39 articles: "The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith".

But despite a sharp rise in inflation and scarcities of essential goods, Maduro has struggled on and gained extra powers to rule by decree.

He is instantly transformed into a brusque and brave energumen who dismisses his cabinet, stands up to a Congress that's ready to impeach him and instead gets it to grant him sweeping emergency powers to rule by decree.

He has given himself powers to rule by decree for the next 18 months and proposes to scrap the term limits in the constitution so that he could stand for re-election indefinitely.Brazil's Lula says that he quietly urges moderation on his Venezuelan counterpart, but there is no evidence that this is changing Mr Chávez's direction of travel.