Sentence examples for stripped power from inspiring English sources

Critics also note that the Whitman Administration had stripped power from two independent watchdog agencies.

It was the first violence since Britain briefly stripped power from Northern Ireland's Catholic-Protestant administration last weekend.

The reforms of the 1970's stripped power from the political parties, replacing decisive convention votes with primaries.

This at a time when Mr. Snyder, a white governor in Lansing, is viewed by some Detroiters as an outsider who stripped power from the city's black leaders by appointing the emergency manager.

Twitter users were happy to pile on the governor, who, as one of his last duties in office, signed legislation that stripped power from his Democratic successor and gave it to the Republican-controlled state legislature.

The veto came after officials in a powerful Shiite party, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, objected to provisions that they contend unlawfully strip power from Iraq's provinces.

In the long term, he vowed to reform "this failed system," threatening to strip power from the unions, which he said the Legislature had worked to protect.

Mr. Villaraigosa in April called on the legislature to largely strip power from the district and shift much of it to his office.

Democrats strongly criticized those measures as an attempt to strip power from Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat.

And in Louisville, efforts are underway to strip power from the Landmarks Commission (the preservation experts).

GOP lawmakers have recently begun moving to strip power from the offices Democrats just won.