Sentence examples for widening power from inspiring English sources

The questions of the day are "How do we save the planet from the climate crisis?" and "What do we do about misogyny, racial profiling and police violence, and homophobic laws?" and "How do we check mass surveillance and the widening power of the state?" and "How do we bring down autocratic, human-rights-abusing regimes without leaving behind chaos and tragedy?" Those are the questions.

A forthcoming Justice Bill will also widen powers to seize criminals' assets.

Muhammad Morsi, the Muslim Brother and winner of presidential elections in June, shocked the country by issuing a decree that assumes vastly widened powers for his office, including virtual immunity against judicial oversight.

A hard-line publication called on security forces on Wednesday to arrest President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's closest political aide amid a widening political power struggle.

Tunisia's Islamic democrats led by Ennahdha realised that laying the foundations of a democracy in a complex transitional phase requires renunciation of the logic of majority vs minority and widening the power base as far as possible through the art of political compromise.

The sultan has responded to the protests by promising to create 50,000 jobs and raising the possibility of widening the powers of a consultative council, which could be a predecessor of a parliament.

We succeeded on the one hand in widening the powers of Parliament compared with those envisaged in the Commission's draft.

Between sights, Mr. Uribe recounted how the drug lord started his career by stealing headstones from cemeteries and reselling them, and how he gradually widened his power base, even holding office in government at one point.

Progressive conservatism is a modern philosophy that is right for an age in which debate is being widened and power is being diffused.

In an effort to consolidate his position and widen his power, Jogaila married the 12-year-old Polish queen Jadwiga and was crowned king of Poland in Kraków on Feb. 15, 1386, as Władysław II Jagiełło.

Aris Accornero, a professor of industrial sociology at Rome University, said the government's strategy was threefold: to weaken the unions' traditional allies among center-left political parties; to overhaul labor legislation; and to an extent dismantle traditional consensual methods of conflict resolution in order to widen government power.