Sentence examples for were empowered to do from inspiring English sources

The Libyans deserve more, and are the only ones capable of dealing with Isis – or would be if only they were empowered to do so.

Private sector space tech companies — from Virgin Galactic to Sierra Nevada Corporation SNCC) — have been doing what only government agencies were empowered to do in earlier generations, launch vehicles into space, improve the fuel efficiency of aircraft, and more.

If the watchdogs with the Securities and Exchange Commission were empowered to do their jobs, Wall Street may not have needed trillions of dollars in bailout funds.

They're empowered to do so.

Teachers want to be empowered to do their own thing.

"We think the court is empowered to do the disentangling".

I want to be empowered to do what I feel about jazz.

I'd much rather have people who believe that they're empowered to do things.

I want them to feel they're empowered to do things.

The last thing our self-hating states will contemplate is what they are empowered to do: govern.

But for all its relative weaknesses, the bureau is empowered to do some things a criminal court cannot.