Sentence examples for substantive powers from inspiring English sources

An advisory council of Iraqis with no substantive powers was the only proposal on the table other than complete American control.

Not only did the board reject that initiative, the board failed to give the newly established presiding director any real substantive powers.

Alexander Hamilton first made clear that the president's right to fire his officers and his substantive powers over foreign affairs and national security all flow from the same constitutional source.

WASHINGTON — As part of an effort to save a financial regulation bill, the Obama administration is prepared to agree that an existing agency, rather than a new agency, could take responsibility for consumer protections as long as the regulators have substantive powers.

The military that has ruled Myanmar since 1962 and the current junta -- in power since 1988 -- have no intention of giving away or sharing any substantive power.

Instead, she concluded, the framers did not see the Constitution's vesting of the nation's "executive power" solely in the president as a grant of any substantive power.

But Mr. Assad has consistently resisted compromise with his Syrian opponents, and doubts remain about how much Russia is willing, or able, to push him to accept significant changes like substantive power sharing or reforms.

We establish the limiting null distribution of our test and demonstrate that our test has good empirical size and substantive power relative to the existing alternatives especially for multiple breaks.

Under questioning from senators on Thursday, the deputy Treasury secretary, Neal S. Wolin, acknowledged that regulators would not have substantive power to write rules governing a vast array of consumer loans until a permanent director of the bureau is in place and until July 21 , 2011 when responsibilities from seven other federal agencies are transferred to the new bureau.

The treaty required no change to US law; it deeds no substantive power to United Nations agencies; the expert committee created by the convention is charged only with reviewing reports from member nations and issuing recommendations to improve access and rights for the disabled.

In saying that this method of spending public moneys is an invasion of the reserved powers of the states, the Court does not assert [p81] that the expenditure of public funds to promote the general welfare is not a substantive power specifically delegated to the national government, as Hamilton and Story pronounced it to be.