Sentence examples for powers to lay from inspiring English sources

Hitler, we're told, means to use its invincible powers to lay waste opposing armies and proclaim himself the Messiah.

In return, Verizon got limits on health care cost increases and won powers to lay off new workers.

Birds were given different colors, squawks and abilities such as extra density, acceleration and the power to lay explosive eggs in the air before winging off their parabolas from the counterforce of laying eggs.

It took till 1909 for Congress to win the power "to lay and collect" income taxes.

But regulators will soon have the power to lay down their own rules for trading in commodities and derivatives.

Now the SCAF claims the power to lay down the laws that the parliament was expected to pass and even to draw up the budget.

And if state employee unions will not agree to a reasonable plan, the governor should exercise his power to lay off state employees to make up the difference.

Mr. Klein has pushed for the power to lay off reserve teachers, but neither the union nor state legislators have been willing to go along.

The decision was mooted (unsettled) in 1913 by ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution, giving Congress the power "to lay and collect taxes on incomes".

At most they can try to advance their policies by using the president's power to lay down regulations and manage federal agencies.

But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government's "power to lay and collect taxes".