Example sentences of "power over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Article 118A also allows majority voting in the Council , so offering obvious political attractions to the Commission and to the European Parliament who are thereby given greater powers over the legislation . |
| 2 | Hazardous chemicals : New powers over the storage and disposal of hazardous chemicals will be introduced . |
| 3 | Finally the Committee proposed the creation of two Councils on Tribunals ( one for England and Wales , and one for Scotland ) to exercise general supervisory powers over the operation of tribunals . |
| 4 | It would be too late also to consider why , if the Corvedale line has running powers over the new line to Montgomery , that line had equally no running powers over the Bishop 's Castle line . |
| 5 | This leaves pension funds with a very wide range of powers over the selection and management of investments and this has attracted a degree of adverse attention in recent years . |
| 6 | It is no part of a judge 's function to exercise disciplinary powers over the police or prosecution as respects the way in which evidence to be used at the trial is obtained by them . |
| 7 | If the Labour party continues to promote the idea that London wants a new Greater London authority , with powers over the police — a policy which strikes terror into the heart of every law-abiding citizen in the capital — it will get its come-uppance when the general election comes . |
| 8 | The GMC 's powers over the registration — and hence the livelihoods — of doctors are already extensive . |
| 9 | At the present day they have no powers over the infant 's land . |
| 10 | It wants to curtail Parliament 's powers over the regions and impose regional assemblies . |
| 11 | The main obstacles to an agreement appeared to be the desire of the Guam government to retain veto powers over the application within the territory of US federal legislation , and the issue of self-determination for the indigenous Chamorros , who constituted some 45 per cent of the population . |
| 12 | Teesside Development Corporation , which has planning powers over the site , said it had considered doing something with the site but had been deterred from making a bid because of site access problems . |
| 13 | Yesterday , the CA was deciding whether to ask the EC competitions director if he had any powers over the move . |
| 14 | The threat to European peace arose from the consequences of the slow decline of ‘ the sick man of Europe ’ and to the rivalries of the Christian powers over the disposal of the Ottoman patrimony . |
| 15 | Then most powers over the economy would have to be devolved from the centre to the republics that chose to remain . |
| 16 | Does the president of the United States have any powers over the congress ? |
| 17 | The courts have had powers over the years to deal with those offences . |
| 18 | The Department 's 100 ‘ responsible staff ’ members have considerable powers over the ministries they oversee . |
| 19 | Thus in both menstruation and childbirth , a woman is associated with both life and death and deemed to have dangerous power over the fate of the foetus . |
| 20 | These processes are justified by the fact that the audience wields some power over the moves of the managers . |
| 21 | The secretary of each level of the party had quasi-absolute power over the members below him , and Elena had a double advantage : not only was she the Party secretary able to veto or grant small privileges for her colleagues , her husband was much of the time the Second Secretary in the Party at large , controlling the day-to-day business of the Romanian Communists under Dej 's supervision . |
| 22 | The battle of the gods in the Babylonian Genesis has no Old Testament equivalent , despite attempts by many scholars to discover underlying references to it in the text of Genesis 1:2 and other passages which speak of God 's power over the waters . |
| 23 | ‘ History was the space in which the drama of individual and social life unfolded according to the purpose of Yahweh , and cosmic time simply attested to the works of Yahweh and His power over the universe . ’ |
| 24 | The two social groups had almost nothing in common : they lacked any common shared sense of a Polish past ; they did not share a sense of common identity ; and historically and geographically Warsaw was far too remote , and contact with it too inconsistent , ever to exert any power over the Pomeranian peasant imagination . |
| 25 | First , it will give the child a sense of power over the machine . |
| 26 | Many industrialists and people from local authorities on both sides of the political spectrum are saying , ’ We should have more power over the decisions that affect our lives ’ , instead of being subject to arbitrary decision making from institutions down here . |
| 27 | And I think that 's a wonderful example of people actually having power over the decisions . |
| 28 | The judges themselves , deriving their authority from the Crown , were minded in the distant past to delegate , and the undisputed view in Lord Mansfield 's time was that the judges had delegated their disciplinary power over the Bar to the Inns of Court . |
| 29 | Note : The operation or termination of the account of a borrowing member includes any aspect of the relationship or the termination of the relationship between the society and a borrowing member as such , including in particular the exercise of the right of foreclosure or any other power over the land by virtue of the mortgage . |
| 30 | ‘ Thus bodies like the Church exercise power over the individual on the basis of the knowledge they possess of that person . |