Sentence examples for with wider powers from inspiring English sources
Mr. Conté agreed to some changes, bringing in a reform-minded prime minister with wider powers.
On Alp-Arslan's death in 1073, Niẓām al-Mulk was left with wider powers, since the late sultan's successor, Malik-Shāh, was only a youth.
It would reinvigorate local government by making it more democratic, accountable, and participative with wider powers to provide and deliver services combined with the financial power to raise resources and borrow for capital investment.
Within a few years, however, economic developments, chaotic conditions among the state banks, and changes in the composition of Congress combined to enable the chartering of a new Bank of the United States with wider powers than before and with closer links to the government.
After the Treaty of Lunéville (1801), Charles became president of the Austrian Hofkriegsrat ("Supreme War Council") and generalissimo with wide powers.
Callaghan had been impressed by Bagier's advocacy of a gaming board with wide powers, and so asked him to stay on.
Following the recommendations of a Senate Select Committee for the development of Canberra, the National Capital Development Commission was established in 1958 with wide powers to plan, develop, and construct the national capital.
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".
Paul Collier, a development economist who worked on the plan, reckons that the answer is to set up a temporary development authority with wide powers to act.Given the local vacuum of power, this is the best idea around.
A foretaste of the opposition came from Alan Johnson, who until the fall of the Labour government last week was home secretary, with wide powers over security, the police and other regulatory agencies.
