Sentence examples for powers to shut from inspiring English sources

This paranoia crystallised in a new law, signed by Mr Putin this month, that broadens the state's powers to shut down NGOs it dislikes.

Instead, Russia is backing a UN treaty which would be respectful of borders while also giving police more powers to shut down websites dealing in "propaganda".

On January 25th American senators reintroduced a bill granting the president emergency powers to shut down parts of the nation's internet as a defence against cyber-attack.

Ministers and the security services are planning draconian powers to shut down or disrupt mobile phone messaging services and social networks in times of civil disorder.

He urged the government to set up an independent federal agency to regulate the work, one with real powers to shut down labs that operated dangerously.

"We've tackled the availability problem – licensing officers and the police do have powers to shut down premises," she says, "but pricing is a real problem".

That is not the same thing as having the power to shut down airspace.

Second, wherever these unlicensed maternity centers operate, local authorities have the power to shut them down.

The bill gives the secretary the strongest possible authority: the power to shut down dangerous plants.

This bill would give the president the power to shut off the Internet.... Al Gore is strongly opposed to it.

As in the recently approved NBC/Comcast merger, the power in question is the power to shut others out.