Sentence examples for powers to summon from inspiring English sources

Initially, government officials said they did not have the powers to summon Letwin to the talks.

The country's parliament speaker, a Brotherhood ally, used emergency powers to summon the pro-Brotherhood Libya Shield militias to Tripoli, saying he feared a coup.

Maude has also proposed that parliament be given powers to summon former senior reporting officers on a project after they have left so they can explain the mess left behind.

The cross-party standards and privileges committee has more powers to summon witnesses than the culture committee which has already reported on the affair, and the home affairs committee which announced on Tuesday that it would examine phone-hacking.

It will not, however, be a full, judge-led inquiry with powers to summon witnesses, but a communities and victims panel that will report its findings in six to nine months.

Mr. Cameron said that any conclusions about the security services' role would have to await the findings of an inquiry by a parliamentary group, the Intelligence and Security Committee, with powers to summon top security officials to testify in closed hearings, which he said would report by the end of the year.

But that would be nothing new for the City Council, which is more frequently using one of its most effective powers: the ability to summon Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's agency heads and ask them embarrassing questions.

Congress has power to summon witnesses before either House or before their committees.

We have a right, in consequence of it, a necessary incidental power, to summon witnesses, if witnesses are necessary.

But the federal government has to use its power to summon the drug industry to the table.

As a partner in the New York firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, he used his access to positions of wealth and power to summon others to their civic duties.