With vast power, but limited public accountability, that old guard is not unlike senior Soviet apparatchiks.
Instead, advocates said, it was typical, underscoring the isolation and vulnerability of immigration detainees in a disjointed system with vast power to transfer people out of reach of lawyers and family members.
The move, which came after months of steadily more ominous threats and a downgrade of Nassau's debt by a credit-rating agency in November, turns the oversight board into a control board, with vast power to rewrite the county's budget and veto labor contracts, borrowings and other important financial commitments.
In late 2011, as Flint's finances continued to worsen, Snyder appointed an emergency financial manager with vast powers to oversee the city's finances – and effectively rendered local elected officials powerless.
The city's water woes come amid a troublesome moment in Flint's history: throttled by financial uncertainty, Flint was placed into state receivership in 2011, when Snyder appointed an emergency manager with vast powers to oversee the city's day-to-day operations.
His purpose was to distinguish between those forms of network communication that are hopelessly corrupted and no longer usable, those that are endangered by a continuing assault on the part of an agency gone rogue, and those that, even with their vast power, all their wealth, and all their misplaced ambition, conscientiousness and effort, they still cannot break.
Well, I think as you look at the next century, the threat that governments are going to have to deal with is the vast power of China as a market competitor coming at you — not you participating in their market but them having great companies coming this way.
Well, I think as you look at the next century, the threat that governments are going to have to deal with is the vast power of China as a market competitor coming at you not you participating in their market but them having great companies coming this way.
With such a vast power grab, Maliki plotted to extend his tenure for an illegitimate third term and managed to secure a federal Supreme Court order to enable him to do so.
With the vast powers of the governorship suddenly available to him, Mr. DiFrancesco was expected easily to beat back a primary challenge from Bret D. Schundler, the mayor of Jersey City and an insurgent conservative candidate.
During the 1970's, Henry A. Kissinger strode across the foreign policy stage like few other diplomats of the 20th century, infuriating as many people as he entranced with his deep accented baritone, vast power and intimidating intellect.
