Sentence examples for surrender powers from inspiring English sources

Some point to the absence of guarantees that a new president would agree to surrender powers.

James F. Dobbins, the Bush administration's envoy in the region, said on Monday that he had received a commitment from leaders of the alliance to surrender powers to a transitional government.

The Greek government is to surrender powers over vast areas of economic and social policymaking to its eurozone creditors under draconian terms agreed for a new three-year bailout.

National governments jealously guard their sovereign authority over immigration issues and are unlikely to surrender powers to Brussels or pool decision-taking in the foreseeable future, despite the shame of the Lampedusa tragedy, which is the biggest single loss of life involving Mediterranean "boat people".

An EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, the first since the summer break, will see more of the same – no big breakthrough, but a tug-of-war over a German push for yet more fiscal discipline in the eurozone, with governments and parliaments pressed to surrender powers over budgets and economic policy-making.

The military will not readily surrender power.

His reluctance to surrender power despite his illness underlined just how personal his regime was.

Baby boomers will have to surrender power before they are ready".

Turkey, like the United States, has yet to demand that Mr. Assad surrender power.

He said he did not want to surrender power to "federal bureaucrats".

Mr. Rawlings is not the only West African leader to surrender power in the past year.