Sentence examples for putative powers from inspiring English sources

It would also help to fix two glaring defects in the current set-up: that Scottish politicians have no incentive to make spending cuts and, despite some notional tax-varying powers, that they are not financially accountable to their voters.Far from being pleased with these putative powers, Mr Salmond is appalled.

The law similarly gives the DNI control over the agencies' personnel, but here too there is devilment in the detail: in practice, the DNI can veto the appointment of some second-tier officials, but he will not be able to sack agency chiefs.To shore up the DNI's putative powers, Mr Bush has suggested that Mr Negroponte, not Mr Goss, will deliver his morning intelligence briefing.

In the past unions had been a "stabilising influence" on the party in the town, he suggested, using their "putative power" sensibly in recruitment and selection.

There was a putative power-pop supergroup, Tinted Windows — with members of Cheap Trick, Smashing Pumpkins, Fountains of Wayne and Hanson, singing Cheap Trick-style songs without the smirks — as well as a recently defected 23-year-old Cuban jazz pianist, Alfredo Rodriguez, not to mention the Japanese female hard-rock trio Bo Peep or the sitar-wielding Anglo-Indian dance-music singer Bishi.

This feature of quantum mechanics allows one to manipulate the information stored in unmeasured qubits with quantum gates, and is one of the sources for the putative power of quantum computers.

Notwithstanding the excitement around the discovery of Shor's algorithm, and apart from the almost insurmountable problem of practically realizing and implementing a large scale quantum computer, a crucial theoretical question remains open, namely, what physical resources are responsible for the putative power of quantum computing?

But the productivity of capitalist nations proved greater than the putative power of the Soviet Union.

The combination of these factors modifies the density distribution, morphing a putative power law into a lognormal.

Its putative supernatural powers also have waned.

Similarly, the Tribunal's proponents have always signalled its putative deterrent power.

The obvious advantage of considering all solid cancers together is that it provides a larger number of cancer cases compared to any individual site, and therefore increases the putative statistical power to detect an effect.