Sentence examples for restricted the powers from inspiring English sources
In the past two years, King Salman bin Abdulaziz has restricted the powers of the notorious religious police and relaxed male guardianship laws.
He also restricted the powers of the sultans and rajas, who take it in turns to serve as king and thus head of state.
The Southern church, the Presbyterian Church in the United States, traditionally promoted local initiative and restricted the powers of all central agencies.
In pursuit of a "patriotic" economic policy, the government has rejected the IMF's prescriptions, raided private pensions, acted to replace the fiscal council overseeing the budget, sought to unseat the governor of the central bank and restricted the powers of the constitutional court.
He has installed a party pal as president; required public buildings to display official propaganda; restricted the powers of the constitutional court; expropriated private pension funds; and collared all the seats on a new media council (which can levy fines for ill-defined misdeeds such as offending "human dignity").
The Act of Settlement 12 years later, which continues to ensure that no Catholic can sit on the throne and only recently saw its provision for male primogeniture expunged from the statute book, also further restricted the powers of the Crown.
In earlier times acetylene gas was the only practicable illuminant, which restricted the power of the light.
He noted that a while only a handful of cases had restricted the power of Congress, under the Commerce Clause, the power to tax has almost always been upheld.
There is a reason many liberals called the Roberts' decision in NFIB a "pyrrhic victory;" Roberts restricted the power of the federal government to help working families.
He died in 1910 in the midst of a constitutional crisis that was resolved the following year by the Parliament Act 1911, which restricted the power of the unelected House of Lords.
A further concern is related to the limited numbers of experimental animals used, as sometimes this restricted the power of statistical analyses [ 35].
