Sentence examples for with wide powers from inspiring English sources

That law would allow provinces to form into semi-independent states with wide powers over internal security.

Callaghan had been impressed by Bagier's advocacy of a gaming board with wide powers, and so asked him to stay on.

After the Treaty of Lunéville (1801), Charles became president of the Austrian Hofkriegsrat ("Supreme War Council") and generalissimo with wide powers.

Beneath (or rather, beside) a central government and parliament much like any others, lie (or stand) those of 17 regions, the comunidades autonomas, with wide powers.

And he called for a solution involving a cease-fire and brokered by international leaders that would establish a "national unity government with wide powers".

The international Danube Commission was thus established as an authoritative institution with wide powers, including its own flag, the right to levy taxes, and diplomatic immunity for its members.

Gen. Jamil Sayed, a Shiite Muslim with wide power as head of the Lebanese internal security agency.

As Akhil Reed Amar, a Yale law professor, observed in "America's Constitution: a Biography," Article I actually makes Congress "first among equals, with wide power to structure the second-mentioned executive and third-mentioned judicial branches".

At the center of this particular drama: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was established under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act to protect consumers from predatory lenders and has become a potent consumer watchdog in the ensuing years, with wide power to battle abuses.

The spike timing characteristics of all observed neurons were typical for irregularly firing neurons with wide power spectra that are lacking clear peaks (Fig. 1D).

Mr. Conté agreed to some changes, bringing in a reform-minded prime minister with wider powers.