Sentence examples for taking on powers from inspiring English sources

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While I think we can all agree that cracking software isn't ethical, legal, or moral, neither is taking on powers that could be used in entirely unpredictable ways.

Alan Johnson also announced that the Government was taking on powers to make it more difficult for under-18s to use cigarette vending machines - and may ban them if that does not work.

From 1975 through 1982, as the state's 51st governor, Mr. Carey led a small group of public servants who vanquished the fiscal crisis that threatened New York City and State — the direst emergency a governor had faced since the Depression — by taking on powers over the city's finances that no governor had wielded before and none has wielded since.

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But it has taken on powers that it was not granted by Congress, and it is not clear whether it fully briefs lawmakers and outside officials on its own mistakes.

In 70s Europe, the keffiya became a fashion symbol as part of a general sympathy with university students around the world taking on power structures.

Our very presence forces people to deal with their "-isms" in a different way than that of queens, since we are seen as taking on power as opposed to surrendering some portion of it.

The DUP leader wanted Cameron to take on powers that would allow him to suspend devolution for a short time in an echo of the repeated suspensions which eventually led to the resignation of Lord Trimble as first minister in 2002.

Wales cannot take on powers over income tax until an annual £300m underfunding by Westminster is addressed, says First Minister Carwyn Jones.

If we took on powers over income tax, that would lock in the underfunding forever and that clearly isn't in Wales' interest".

However, the Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones responded to the poll by saying Wales could not take on powers over income tax until an annual £300m underfunding by Westminster was addressed.

His performance takes on power as the play moves on and his predicament becomes ever more dire.

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