Example sentences of "power [verb] or [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Assertion of the principle served to do away with the monarch 's previously claimed powers to suspend or dispense with acts of Parliament and it served to deny judges the power to strike down measures . |
| 2 | For discussion of the clerk 's powers to accept or refuse an application under this section . |
| 3 | In each case the minister may be able to back up a recommendation with indirect weapons : by control over loans and other powers to permit or limit activities , by co-operation or its refusal in situations in which joint central local action is necessary . |
| 4 | The court then has wide powers to revoke or suspend the approval , or give directions as to further meetings . |
| 5 | The regime established by the neutralisation of an entire region could be based on a framework of obligations undertaken by the Great Powers to desist or refrain from particular forms of military involvement in that region , in particular the maintenance of military bases , facilities and alliance systems . |
| 6 | He finds himself calling upon the Government to use its powers to stop or sink Christopher Columbus 's expedition before it reaches America , and sets off a chain of events disastrous to the ecology of two continents . |
| 7 | The flaw in this idea was that the Assembly was to have no executive powers and no powers to make or unmake ministers . |
| 8 | There are wide-ranging powers to limit or restrict the manufacture and release of a product until the agency concerned is fully convinced of its safety . |
| 9 | The House also has the power to admonish or issue a reprimand to those in contempt . |
| 10 | It has the power to suspend or expel them from college . |
| 11 | The Parliament must have the power to confirm or deny the Councils ' nominee as President of the Commission , and then to approve or not the President 's choice of Commissioners — and subsequently to sack them if necessary . |
| 12 | When you are presenting to high-status people , who have the power to promote or demote you , you can feel justifiably vulnerable and exposed . |
| 13 | The orthodox viewpoint is that , as each successive Parliament has the power to pass or repeal any legislation , any attempt to bind Parliament by entrenching a statutory provision , would be ineffective . |
| 14 | The General Board shall have power to accept or refuse the application and , if it accepts it , to determine , in consultation with the professor concerned , the number of students whose names may be on the register at any one time and the method of their selection . |
| 15 | The Home Secretary has power to modify or supplement the data protection principles to provide additional safeguards for these categories ; it will be interesting to see what these additional regulations will contain . |
| 16 | In either event , the power to exclude or modify pre-emptive rights ceases with the expiration or revocation of the authority conferred under section 80 , ( or 80A ) though it can be renewed by special resolution when , and to the extent that , the authority is renewed . |
| 17 | A justices ' clerk has power to grant or refuse an application for transfer . |
| 18 | Reappraisal of Planning Permission — all existing permissions should be reassessed according to the same criteria as above , and authorities would have the power to rescind or modify them . |
| 19 | He suggested I violently introduce a turnip up my rectum because I no longer have the power to hire or fire anybody . |
| 20 | The outboard switches lend you the power to engage or disengage all of the combos ' externally switchable options ( eg. channel selection , graphic on/off and reverb on/off ) direct from the TriAxis . |
| 21 | In practice , however , the BBC 's position was epi-tonrized in the government 's power to require or ban the broadcast of any specific matter . |
| 22 | Their prosperity was directly dependent upon political favour : the government itself constituted the most valuable market , established monopolies in the most lucrative goods , disposed of much of the available credit , and had the legal power to advance or halt new ventures . |
| 23 | The Area Director also has power to discharge or revoke it upon the happening of specified events including a request from the applicant so to do , or where the aid has been abused , or where the applicant is in arrears with contributions , or where the applicant 's financial position improves so that he or she is able to afford to fund legal action . |
| 24 | The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when . |
| 25 | If a free service builds up a high demand and a waiting list , that too increases a professional 's power to humiliate or increase the client 's dependency . |
| 26 | How he could do so at all is something beyond our finite comprehension , and the full significance of the intersection of eternity with time in Jesus is only grasped along with the awareness that it is beyond our power to understand or explain . |
| 27 | Where any power to revoke or determine can not be exercised within six years from the time when any particular property first becomes comprised in the settlement , the subsection does not apply to income arising under the settlement from that property , or from property representing that property , so long as the power can not be exercised . |
| 28 | She felt she had no power to determine or influence the decisions taken by the LEA and its professional advisers . |
| 29 | position power ; to what extent does the leader have the power to reward or punish other members of the organisation ? |
| 30 | Now she moves right through my gaze , which no longer has the power to slow or halt her . |