Example sentences of "[adj] powers [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's meeting of the planning sub-committee gave Stephen Tapper , director of development services , delegated powers to order the removal of ugly advertising displays . |
| 2 | Later , the Presidential Council ( which was politically ineffective ) was replaced by a Security Council ( responsible for internal law and order and external security ) , while the Federation Council was given enhanced powers to meet the demands of the republics . |
| 3 | In areas of policy where liberal corporatism prevails political leaders and party organizations are either excluded defacto from policy-making or compelled by their dependence upon the external elites to surrender some of their public powers to steer the state . |
| 4 | He was helpless ; he was not convinced , but he lacked the self-assurance and moral authority to go back to his office to use his official powers to requisition the people 's promade . |
| 5 | The other becomes a witch , an evil enchantress , with amazing powers to seduce the innocent . |
| 6 | So the Act provides for the appointment by the Prime Minister of a Tribunal with very limited powers to regulate the way in which Ministers use the very extensive powers given to them under the Act . |
| 7 | Ralph Nader 's Study Group on Air Pollution estimated that the implementation phase would not be completed until well into the 1980s and the Air Quality Act was criticized for providing the Department of Health , Education and Welfare with only very limited powers to press the states into faster action . |
| 8 | A decree published by the High Committee of State ( HCE ) on Aug. 15 gave the authorities additional powers to order the suspension or closure of any enterprise the activities of which " endanger public order , public security , the normal functioning of institutions or the higher interests of the country " . |
| 9 | Even though I was still an innocent youth , Old Shallot had met the most fierce and sinister of warlocks , magicians and witches : men who used dark powers to unhinge the mind of their opponents . |
| 10 | As man 's direct dependence on his body to attain subsistence has decreased , his instinct has become increasingly unreliable ; it has become necessary , through the use of inhibition , to employ his conscious powers to fill the gap that has been left behind by its deterioration . |
| 11 | Parliament on Aug. 6 approved the setting-up of a joint committee with extensive powers to probe the scandal . |
| 12 | ( 6 ) The Panel can also make a report of any wrongdoing to the DTI which may then use its own extensive powers to investigate the matter . |
| 13 | Where the practice is found to be anti-competitive the Minister can then accept voluntary undertakings from the firm to modify its practice or invoke extensive powers to proscribe the practice . |
| 14 | They gave the armed forces broad powers to take the initiative from the local civilian authorities to expropriate property and financial assets , to mobilize the population and institutions in emergency zones , and to enter the universities and prisons , regarded as centres of recruitment and indoctrination for the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrilla group . |
| 15 | The peasants were authorized to parcel out the private estates while legal ownership of all land was vested in the State ; factory committees were given broad powers to vet the actions of management ; the minorities were granted the right of self-determination ; each regiment was authorized to negotiate armistice terms . |
| 16 | But the Committee has no legal powers to prevent the release of new organisms — a power which is available to the control bodies which operate in the United States . |
| 17 | When Chinese gun batteries bombarded the islands in late 1953 , Eisenhower secured a Congressional resolution ( January 1954 ) granting him sweeping powers to protect the Nationalist Chinese . |
| 18 | He turned on his considerable persuasive powers to convince the player not merely that the full-back position was right for him but that he would be the best full-back in the country . |
| 19 | Although it is not mentioned in the Act , the Government intended to act as an agent of the Government of India , by using its compulsory powers to purchase the site of the India Office and sell it back to the Indian Government . |
| 20 | In addition , Pt III of the Fair Trading Act 1973 ( FTA ) gives the Director General powers to seek the cessation of business activities detrimental to consumers ( s34(1) of FTA 1973 ) . |
| 21 | The decision in Lambeth LBC v. Secretary of State for Social Services where Woolf J struck down the minister 's decision to use his statutory powers to suspend the members of an area health authority and to appoint commissioners in their place was strongly interventionist . |
| 22 | By then , the Cold War was well under way and it was strategically expedient for the western powers to ensure the permanence of a stable anti-communist regime on Europe 's southern flank . |
| 23 | The most controversial of the proposals aimed to ( i ) reduce spending on education ; ( ii ) grant the government new powers to reduce the salaries of state employees and judges and to abolish security of tenure for civil servants with five years ' service ; ( iii ) end banking secrecy to allow the government to tackle tax evasion ; ( iv ) suspend a provision forbidding the government from collecting tax revenue in the year in which the tax was introduced ; and ( v ) reform pension schemes . |
| 24 | The target 's memorandum and articles should therefore be checked to ensure that the target has the necessary powers to implement the scheme . |
| 25 | Although the shareholders no longer exercised the direct control of principals over the directors as their agents , the model nevertheless asserts that any danger that the directors might use their considerable discretionary powers to manage the business in their own interest is precluded . |
| 26 | The Chilvers Report on School Teachers ' Pay & Conditions ( 1990 ) points towards far-reaching changes which give governing bodies considerable discretionary powers to enhance the salaries of individual teachers . |
| 27 | In 1889 a new tier of provincial officials , the ‘ land captains ’ , was created with both administrative and judicial powers to tighten the State 's direct supervision of the peasantry . |
| 28 | the Treasury had significant powers to direct the areas and nature of the C. and A.G. 's audit ; |
| 29 | The Council has plenary powers to administer the Agreement . |
| 30 | ‘ Under the Water Act 1989 , ’ commented the magazine ENDS , ‘ the NRA 's main powers to prevent the entry of these pesticides into water sources from diffuse discharges will only be exercisable if the Secretary of State chooses to designate water protection zones in the areas concerned . |