Sentence examples for sought powers from inspiring English sources

A further Bill in 1740 sought powers to improve the river from Barnby Dun to Fishlake Ferry.

The Corporation of Doncaster sought powers in 1727 to improve the river below Holmstile, as far as Wilsick House in Barnby Dun.

As the B&PCR and the GN&SR were now in common ownership, the bill also sought powers to enable the companies to merge and for the B&PCR to change its name.

The GN&SR sought powers for a short extension of about 350 m from its southern terminus, to Temple station on the DR's existing sub-surface line where an interchange was planned.

The first dealt with the Strand branch: it confirmed the layout of the junction between the branch and the main route at Holborn, and sought powers to extend the branch south under the River Thames to the London and South Western Railway's (L&SWR's) terminus at Waterloo station.

The November 1895 bill sought powers to modify the planned route of the tunnels at the Baker Street end of the line and extend them approximately 200 m beyond their previous end point at the south-eastern corner of Dorset Square to the south-eastern corner of Harewood Square.

The first group, led by Ḥikmat Sulaymān, was a faction of old politicians who sought power by violent methods.

In a rare recent interview, he said he had never sought power and opposed dynasty in politics.

Some officers of the corps sought power and profit with an avidity that led to clash after clash with the early governors.

"That Woman" depicts Wallis as a woman who sought power and privilege but never expected the damage she wrought or the wrath she engendered.

Many are the politicians who have sought power by appealing to popular indignation over corruption only to turn a blind eye once they have won it.