Example sentences of "its power " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Divisional Court dismissed a general medical practitioner 's application for judicial review of the Health Secretary 's decision that Coventry Family Practitioners ' Committee acted within its powers and duties in imposing a condition on the doctor 's use of the BMA/Air Call Deputising Service . |
| 2 | MOSCOW — The Supreme Soviet voted the government an extension of its powers to send in troops if necessary , to restore order to the railways of Transcaucasia , thrown into chaos by Azerbaijan 's blockade of neighbouring Armenia , writes Rupert Cornwell . |
| 3 | Its powers were extended by the Housing Acts of 1894 , 1900 and 1903 , and also by the Housing and Town Planning Act of 1909 , the first major housing measure not introduced by Conservatives . |
| 4 | Its powers are not clear , a reflection of the confusion which exists . |
| 5 | Loses its powers of adhesion . |
| 6 | But the spirit is immortal and will recover its powers when it is freed from the physical brain . |
| 7 | No-one would have planned a system like it , but , the argument goes , its powers to examine and revise legislation are scarcely great enough to make it worth the bother of finding something to replace it . |
| 8 | The Alkali and Clean Air Inspectorate spelt out its wobbly rationale for taking no action in its 1981 Report , saying that its powers were ‘ intended to protect the population and environment of England and Wales ’ , so ‘ it is unlikely that action could be taken under the legislation solely to protect the environment of other countries . ’ |
| 9 | An MEP has made the point that the Parliament has simply not put down enough roots for it to be realistic to expect it to increase its powers . |
| 10 | In terms of day-to-day influence over policy or even in terms of control over the executive , its powers are risible . |
| 11 | The democrat looks to a parliament to ensure that the executive is kept under scrutiny and prevented from abusing its powers . |
| 12 | I think it has no little merit ; but as a copy to be prefixed to the sweetly easy poems of Molly Leaper [ sic ] , had it not been written , I should not have advised the measure ; and yet I love that genius should shew its powers . |
| 13 | This seeks to establish that a minister or local authority has acted beyond its powers . |
| 14 | The House of Lords may be an irritant , but its powers are restricted by the Parliament Acts . |
| 15 | This was not done in the 1985 Act — with the result that it would be open to the Government not to comply with an order if it takes the view that the Tribunal 's decision clearly exceeds its powers under the statute . |
| 16 | Its powers were distributed between the London Boroughs with some important exceptions e.g. education in inner London ( for which a reconstituted and now directly elected Inner London Education Authority was created ) and fire services . |
| 17 | An auditor has no power himself to decide that a council has acted outside its powers . |
| 18 | A local authority derives its powers from statutory authority . |
| 19 | The statutes from which it derives its powers are either public statutes or private statutes . |
| 20 | The Act dissolved the Company and transferred its powers and those of the Board of Control to a new Secretary of State . |
| 21 | In general its powers included giving information , advice , and assistance to adolescents and their parents on choice of employment and related matters ; filtering available young workers into openings on the basis of a detailed knowledge of each applicant and each vacancy ; acting as a centre for enquiries from other youth agencies , such as clubs , Scouts and apprenticeship committees ; and organizing propaganda for the creation of ‘ responsible ’ opinion among parents , juveniles , employers , and the public as to the ‘ evil ’ effects of the disorganized methods of recruitment into the youth labour-market . |
| 22 | With the passing of the 1910 Choice of Employment Act , the education committee decided to exercise its powers and petition for the closing of the JAC ( which had not yet begun its work ) so that it could open what was termed a Juvenile Employment Bureau and Care Committee System . |
| 23 | Unless local government is organized to meet the needs of the future , and in particular is organized in units large enough to match the technical and administrative requirements of the services which it administers , its powers must diminish , and with it the power of local democracy … |
| 24 | But the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority has introduced a private member 's bill asking for a ten-year extension of its powers to reclaim Seal Sands . |
| 25 | In 1880 Queen Victoria had been on the throne for forty-three years ; Gladstone began the second of his four terms as Prime Minister ; Great Britain was at the zenith of its powers . |
| 26 | By 1922 the city had no less than four separate charters establishing and defining the limits of its powers : the Treaty of Versailles , the Danzig-Polish Accords , the Danzig City Constitution and the Covenant with the League of Nations . |
| 27 | In this sense it has a similar role to that of the Office of Fair Trading in relation to UK competition rules such as the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 , the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , although in a number of respects and in particular in so far as the Commission has the power to take binding decisions , its powers are more extensive than the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 28 | Under its powers of investigation , the Commission can examine books and other business records of parties , take copies or extracts from the books and business records , ask for oral explanations on the spot and enter any premises , land or means of transport within EC territory belonging to the undertakings concerned . |
| 29 | A regulatory body will have to be empowered by law to administer the new rules ; however , since the proposed Directive allows the regulatory authority to delegate its powers to a private body , there is no reason why the Panel in its present form should not be given the necessary authority with the result that changes in day-to-day practice may prove to be minimal . |
| 30 | When , in a similar situation in 1947 , the House of Lords threatened to block the steel nationalisation programme of the Labour administration , to the maximum extent permitted by the 1911 Act , that government responded by curbing its powers still further , by forcing through the Parliament Act 1949 . |