Sentence examples for provinces power from inspiring English sources

They would weaken the provinces' power to block laws and constitutional changes that affect them.

In some provinces power stations were down to just a few days of coal stocks.

He also secured the passage of legislation that created three new provinces out of the existing ones, thus weakening and diffusing the provinces' power.

In all of Anatolia (Asia Minor) only two provinces were firmly under central control, while in the European provinces power had fallen into the hands of such formidable local notables as Ali Paşa, who controlled southern Albania, and Osman Pasvanoğlu, who dominated northern Bulgaria until his death in 1807.

Nevertheless, the provinces' powers are vast, and the constitutional guarantees of their rights and independence are particularly strong.

Canada also is a federal state, despite the fact that some of the formal features of ideal federalism are absent from its 1982 constitution: the provinces' powers, not the central government's, are enumerated.

Busses from Aberdeen to Anglesey became cacophonous cabins that tore through the provinces powered by petrol and "Put Your Hands Up for Detroit".

Rasoul Baghi, director of the southern provinces for the state power firm Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (Dabs), said the Taliban controls more than a third of the output at the Kajaki plant, a facility in neighbouring Helmand province that helps power Kandahar.

Saddam Hussein starved the provinces of power to feed Baghdad.

Howling winds knocked down trees and electricity posts, leaving nine provinces without power, while floods and small landslides made 25 roads and bridges impassable.

Many also say that moving away from Yemen's highly centralized system of government and granting the provinces more power to govern themselves would ease tensions.