Sentence examples for the existing powers from inspiring English sources

RLA policy director David Smith argues that borough officers sometimes don't fully understand the existing powers at their command, which are quite complex.

While the report justifies many of the existing powers, it recommends that many of the government's planned new surveillance laws should not be added.

Under the existing powers, or perhaps ignoring them, President George W. Bush abused his authority for many years with excessive detentions and illegal wiretapping.

The amendments would take a wrench to the existing powers of the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobaccoand Firearms to close in on unscrupulous gun dealers by checking on their licenses, sales records and inventories.

It would include the commitment to maintain the existing powers of the Lords to amend and delay (the government has lost 450 votes since the reforms of 1999) and of no single party having overall control.

Even a neutral rewriting exercise, aimed strictly at restating the existing powers of the Union, would reignite arguments in each country about the benefits of membership (see chart).And yet the commission is correct.

A social democratic government doesn't exist to provide better technocratic management of the existing power structure.

By endorsing the existing power structure, religions serve a useful function for the powerful whether they are monarchs, or men in a male-dominated society.

Initially, at least, you will be outside the existing power loop.

They did not take into account the distance from the existing power grid, however.

His organization seeks to integrate electric vehicles into the existing power network.