Sentence examples for powers under which from inspiring English sources

To deal with these threats, the President used his constitutional emergency powers under which he could suspend civil rights in member states of the federal system.

Some have already been changed and we have already ensured that there is legislation before Parliament to tighten up the powers under which David Miranda was held.

The Bill maintains existing powers under which the police and security agencies  can access communications data and intercept suspects' phone calls and emails.

Justice O'Connor said court supervision of this type is an exercise of the Government's "noncriminal regulatory powers" under which Fifth Amendment rights are reduced because the Government is not acting as prosecutor.

He was detained on 10 November 2012 under schedule 7 of the Terrorism 2000 Act, the same powers under which David Miranda, the partner of a Guardian journalist, was detained in August.

De facto rule by the assembly would be worse than the status quo, because the assembly would inherit all the powers held by the leader while holding on to its existing powers, under which it could at a stroke of a pen decrease its members from 88 to six and lengthen its election cycles from eight years to 15.

Although the Supreme Court has upheld such arrangements, Reagan administration lawyers developed a more sweeping view of executive power under which such restrictions should be struck down as unconstitutional.

The number of people subject to the power, under which the home secretary can deprive dual nationals of their British citizenship if it is deemed to be in the public interest, has increased since the coalition government came to power.

And I state now that myself and my colleagues will do everything possible to destroy this feudal regime being established in Russia — to destroy the system of power under which 83 percent of national wealth belongs to 0.5 percent of the population.

"I state now that I and my colleagues will do everything possible to destroy the system of power under which 83% of national wealth belongs to 0.5% of the population," Mr Navalny thundered.

The new law provides for the addition of 300 Federal narcotics agents and the use of the controversial "no‐knock" power under which homes may be entered by the police with out warning to prevent destruc tion of evidence.