Sentence examples for review powers from inspiring English sources

The comptroller was given review powers by an act that the Legislature passed in 2009.

The five-member planning board, which previously had no architectural review powers, primarily ruling on subdivision applications and site plans, can now approve or deny an application.

It was the first of a number of cases that eventually resulted in the home secretary's parole review powers being transferred to the judiciary.

President Clinton's first two attempts to desegregate the Fourth Circuit were blocked by Senator Jesse Helms, using review powers accorded to senators over nominees from their own states.

But Mr. Silver yesterday played down concerns that the developers were using public subsidies to generate excessive private profits, noting that the board's official review powers were limited to vetting the state's contribution to the infrastructure costs.

The Supreme Court, in accordance with its judicial review powers, decided that the 14th Amendment includes a right to privacy and, thus, the right for a woman to have an abortion.

And the Supreme Court has made clear, in case after case, that the courts have just the sort of judicial review power that Judge Doumar has invoked.

Governor Rell has said that her state should have review power and a veto over the project even though it would be in New York waters.

Under the Gore view, nothing in Article II should be read to strip state courts of the ordinary review power that the framers intended them to have.

"This is going to happen," she said of the license plate protest, predicting that Congress, which has review power over new laws passed by the council, would shy from interfering with such a basic expression of free speech.

Judicial review, power of the courts of a country to examine the actions of the legislative, executive, and administrative arms of the government and to determine whether such actions are consistent with the constitution.