Sentence examples for representatives powers to from inspiring English sources

Despite this, Macron and his government have helped fast-track a bill granting the Minister of Interior and Prefects – the state's local representatives – powers to impose measures, very similar to the current exceptional measures, on vague grounds and with limited judicial oversight.

Having grown frustrated with the intransigence of elected local leaders, international officials now rely heavily on the high representative's powers to impose legislation.

In 1647, the Levellers, hoping to remedy this small defect, drafted "An Agreement of the People," with the idea that every freeman would assent to it, granting to his representatives the power to represent him.

The League sent a commission of representatives from various powers to the region.

In socialism, by definition, the good of the society as a whole is collectively defined, and the representatives are given powers to implement it.

To remove any question as to our purpose I asked General Clay to request the Allied Control Council to appoint representatives with power to go into every zone and make a report as to the disarmament of Germany.

He also suggested giving the U.S. trade representative more power to negotiate trade agreements with foreign countries and to rule on industry complaints.

But elected representatives have too few powers to hold mayors to account.

On paper the high representative has considerable legal powers to intervene in the running of the country.

The two authors offered praise to the supposedly increased representative powers of communes, and to the laws protecting private property within urban domains.

"By ingrafting representation upon democracy," as Condorcet's friend Tom Paine put it, the people could exercise their power both directly, in local assemblies, and indirectly, by provisionally entrusting some of their powers to elected representatives.