Sentence examples for seeking powers from inspiring English sources

Ministers had been seeking powers to amend copyright law and impose conditions or fees where infringements were taking place.

The FSA is also seeking powers to impose business-improvement orders on auditors, in the hope that problems can be picked up at an earlier stage.Clearer roles as well as new tools may be what the regulators need now.

But in the last few months, the tables have turned, and now people in three towns and the gritty river city of Peekskill are seeking powers to protect their water supply from development pressures in Putnam County.

Mr Cash acknowledged that seeking powers to repeal existing legislation would be "legally complex and controversial" but said claims about the supremacy of EU law needed to be challenged.

Politics in Kashmir were dominated by turbulent feudatories seeking power.

A party seeking power understands the need for discipline.

Although essential "for the man seeking power", it is dangerous for the ruler "already in power".

Plenty of business executives venture into politics seeking power and influence.

All through the night I heard "experts" say people respond negatively to women seeking power.

Seeking "power and influence", he had even briefly joined a biker gang, but was rejected as too "weird".

"We had a choice of seeking power by democracy or revolution," says Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader in Gaza.