Example sentences of "not have [art] power " in BNC.

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1 Scotland Yard 's anti-terrorism squad headed by Commander David Tucker did not have the powers or resources to fight terrorism on a national basis , he said .
2 The EC does not have the powers to do this .
3 The applicant receivers are not , therefore , administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) of the Act of 1986 and they do not have the powers of office holders which they wish to use .
4 In Northern Regional Health Authority v Crouch [ 1984 ] 1 QB 644 , the Court of Appeal held that the court does not have the powers of an arbitrator under standard form construction contracts to " open up , review , and revise any certificate , opinion , decision , requisition or notice … and to determine all matters in dispute …
5 Although ACET , like any charity , does not have the power to release you from the agreement it is likely to be sympathetic .
6 Some are still around and , although they do not have the power , compare reasonably well in quality with modern wonders .
7 He needs to think of how we are to find the right ministers , men and women — to let people know that there is a vocation called holy orders , of ‘ unique difficulty and unique happiness ’ ; the variety of ministers , deaconesses , teachers in schools , lay preachers , monks and nuns and friars who belong to ‘ the praying heart of the Church ’ , without which its mission would not have the power of God within it .
8 As the Labour dissidents in the Cabinet recognized , they did not have the power — they were a minority in the Cabinet as well as in the Commons — to avoid such a cut ; all that they could do was to ensure that it was not a Labour government which imposed it .
9 The crucial difference between new and old is that publishing responsibility passes to the television and radio operators : the ITC and Radio Authority will not have the power to preview programmes or vet schedules .
10 But the bank is believed to have replied that it did not have the power to do so .
11 Japanese officials plead that they do not have the power to carve up the market in this way .
12 I knew I was being bewitched , laid under a spell so intensely personal , so thrilling , I did not have the power to resist it , or to judge if it were good or evil .
13 Nor could he tax : he simply did not have the power to levy impositions like the taille and the gabelle , as the French king did .
14 But Saracen arrows did not have the power of penetration necessary to pierce the heavy mail hauberks of the Christian knights , and whenever their numbers were inferior they were frequently overwhelmed by the sheer weight and ferocity of their opponents .
15 An alternative line of defence offered by the National Bank for its failure to curb inflation ( EP , 10 November 1986 ) is that it does not have the power to prevent the money supply from growing faster than its planned rate .
16 Again , it is a peculiarity of unfair dismissal law that an industrial tribunal does not have the power to consider the fairness of dismissal where at the time of dismissal the employer was conducting a lockout or the employee was taking part in a strike or other industrial action .
17 But the local branch did not have the power to agree to the offer .
18 Instead , some individuals or groups in society will fail to forecast inflation correctly and so may , for example , seek money wage increases which are lower than necessary to maintain their real wages ; other individuals or groups may not have the power to gain full compensation for inflation even if they do predict it correctly .
19 The Minister decried the fact that the Film Censorship Board in his Ministry does not have the power to stop private screening of pornographic films in homes and video clubs .
20 But yesterday he said he did not have the power to pass the sentence .
21 It can be argued that there is a clear difference between finding that Parliament has failed to follow its own procedural rules and from saying that Parliament does not have the power to legislate in a particular way .
22 Judicial review does lie to the visitor in cases where he has acted outside his jurisdiction in the sense that he did not have the power under the regulating documents to enter into the adjudication of the dispute , or has abused his power , or has acted in breach of the rules of natural justice ( post , pp. 1114F–G , G–H , 1125H , 1126C–D , 1129H — 1130A ) .
23 Selim did not have the power to punish the rebels , and in 1798 he made peace with Pazvant-oglu and a year later permitted the janissaries to return to Belgrade .
24 But though this world informs the real world , it does not have the power to change it , for Larry is unsuccessful in convincing others of the validity of his theory .
25 All outputs along the same channel always appear together in the minimal acceptances because we assume that the environment , like occam processes , does not have the power of selective input on a channel .
26 If [ it ] … does not have the power to raise you up … to that mood where one sees the earthly veils pull away from oneself — then I too want to have nothing more to do with this philosophy . "
27 If the Government do not have the power of veto and we risk having those directives imposed on us , it is an extremely serious matter .
28 It has said , ’ We do not have the power to have a statutory canvass , but without a statutory canvass , we do not know the real position .
29 As yet , it does not have the power to solve it .
30 Although people are concerned about the democratic deficit , their biggest worry is that they will not have the power to remove unelected bureaucrats in Europe .
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