Sentence examples for within its powers from inspiring English sources

The Welsh government says it is all within its powers and it will vigorously defend the claims.

So it will need to demonstrate, for each decision it takes, that it is acting within its powers.

It should take appropriate steps within its powers to see to it that effective, lawful human rights monitoring continues in the Gambia, and make a public statement in support of non-governmental human rights organisations operating in the country.

When an authority uses words to make law (as when a legislature uses a lawful process to pass an enactment that is within its powers), the law that it thereby makes is a standard (or standards) whose existence and content are determined by the legal effect that the law ascribes to that use of words.

But on Wednesday the high court unanimously found that the state was acting within its powers.

In a major victory for health campaigners, Lord Doherty ruled last Friday that the Scottish parliament was within its powers to introduce Europe's first minimum pricing law on all alcoholic drinks because it would protect health.

A: It should have a clear commitment that, wherever it is within its power, it will implement the living wage, and it will encourage private sector employers to also implement the living wage.

"The town doesn't have it within its power to provide enough incentives for developers to do that".

"Any one party or branch of government has it within its power to stop the deficit from worsening.

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that the Clinton administration acted within its power when it gave national monument status to seven natural landmarks, including the Grand Canyon-Parashant NatinnArizonament in andzona and the Giant Sequoia National Monument in California.

The U.S. Justice Department appealed, however, and in May 1949, the United States Supreme Court handed down a brief, unsigned, unanimous decision that overturned the appeals court and stated that the FCC acted within its power when it refused the license renewal for Lafount and the other owners.