Sentence examples for substantial power to from inspiring English sources
This was the period when the British monarchy lost substantial power to Parliament, and England lost the American colonies.
There are the obviously troubling implications of handing substantial power to a terrorist who has, in effect, suicide-bombed his way to the negotiating table.
"Russia will for significant periods of time have substantial power to impact prices by contributing or withholding volumes from the market," said Mr. Stern of the Oxford Institute.
Kenya's 2010 constitution devolved powers to regional governments, giving them substantial power to control their development agenda and enabling local people to initiate projects such as the Waterbank School.
A central principle of that system is that a patent holder has a legal monopoly and, therefore, substantial power to name its price.
The formal first-stage regressions, presented in Appendix 3: Table 19, support this conclusion, showing that predicted immigration has substantial power to explain the overall and race-specific immigrant shares of Northern labor markets in both the black and white regression samples.
The Kurds say their regional law is consistent with the Iraqi Constitution, which grants substantial powers to the provinces to govern their own affairs.
"The British people still feel short-changed, for instance, by the absence of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, which sent substantial powers to Brussels without public consultation.
While on paper the prime minister was granted substantial powers to form and run a government, in practice Mr. Abbas has repeatedly had to fight for his agenda with Mr. Arafat and other longtime Fatah officials.
Sadly the Inquiries Act 2005 – which allows the government substantial powers to curtail public inquiries or hold them in secret – was not given the degree of parliamentary scrutiny that it merited.
This is the first agreement in Canada's history that recognizes the full autonomy of any Indian people as a "native nation," giving Quebec's Crees substantial powers to help manage mining, forestry and energy development.
