• Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein has used his powers of office to intimidate and threaten Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his government into backing away from all the proposed bills aimed at curbing judicial power.

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  • An independent counsel, with all the powers of that office, is what we need.

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  • So I will use all the powers of this office to help advance efforts aimed at preventing more tragedies like this.

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  • He originated the project and, as a senator from New York, used the powers of his office to push for it relentlessly, year after year.

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  • The powers of the Welsh Office were extended and a host of new quangos were set up to monitor and govern Thatcher's free market state.

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  • "They have been issued an oath of office and now have arrest powers in the state of Louisiana, " she said.

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  • "I'm proud we have entered the ranks of satellite powers, " office worker Hyun Day-sun said.

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  • The court rejected Clinton's claims that lawsuits against presidents in office violate the separation of powers between the judicial branch and the executive branch.

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  • Give him credit for acknowledging that the demands of the office have superseded his failing powers.

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  • American presidents tend to get their authority less from direct popular mandate than from the powers of the presidency itself and from their behaviour in office.

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  • In office, he will command enormous powers of patronage.

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  • The powers of the independent counsel will be narrowed, if the office survives at all.

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  • But Mr. Bush, throughout his time in office, has taken a large view of the powers he has.

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  • The assembly would, in Mr Donaldson's scenario, work in a committee-like structure to advise the ministers of the Northern Ireland Office, but would not have administrative powers or make executive decisions.

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  • Most important of all are new powers for the prime minister, who gets a strengthened Cabinet Office, lots more staff and, in theory at least, a much bigger say in government spending.

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  • The Sunday Times, which says it has seen leaked Home Office documents, reports that the consultative group is considering the benefits of extending the powers of traffic wardens.

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  • The Attorney General's office said it was considering whether to refer the case to the Court of Appeal, which has powers to increase a sentence if it is "unduly lenient".

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  • The NUS president, who has always championed partnership working in the past, said there would be a "desperate need" for a new universities' "watchdog", with powers to refer university pricing practices to the Office for Fair Trading or the Monopolies Commission and to monitor the accuracy of prospectuses.

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  • This Mr Kim, who still has to be cofirmed in his job because of the opposition's refusal to co-operate, has been promised that the prime minister's office will be given far greater powers than it has had in the past in return for his support of the president.

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