And he appoints the election organisers, who have taken some controversial decisions without consulting his opponents.
Breaking down imports and exports in terms of the value-added from different countries can lead to some controversial conclusions.
Nor is his taste for wrought-iron fencing and some controversial French-built bus shelters.
That agreement helped prevent some controversial proposals from reaching the floor, where debate could have delayed efforts to send legislation to Clinton before the April 30 deadline.
Al-Awlaki acknowledged his son has espoused some controversial views but all of them, he said, would be protected by freedom of speech provisions in the American Constitution.
Newly-inaugurated Republican Governor Pat McCrory is already on the hot seat after making some controversial statements on a radio talk show regarding funding for higher education in North Carolina.
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Among some controversial choices was a sculpture of Christ, the current Marc Quinn piece of a pregnant woman with no arms or legs and a brief unauthorised appearance of a waxwork of David Beckham.
The report also contained some controversial recommendations: It asks all broadcast and cable networks to refrain from projecting the outcome of presidential voting in any state while polls remain open anywhere in the contiguous 48 states.
Alright manufacturers, we're totally down with throwing in a bit of draft-N love or even a free FM radio, but seriously, why not activate the goods (without some controversial fee) before shipping these things out?
After Republicans gained a majority of the House in 2010, he evaded congressional approval of some controversial appointments, intimidated Chief Justice John Roberts into upholding Obamacare and gutted the 1996 welfare reform bill by eliminating the work requirement.
We believe that the actions that we took in early 2009 -- some of them controversial, some of them very difficult -- have been responsible, or have certainly helped produce that change in direction.
Its annual competition began the following year, when such an event was, to some, controversial.
But some more controversial subjective judgments are effectively off-limits.
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The organization is also heavily involved in some of the controversial legislation in Arizona, and in privatizing prisons.
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However, the government may be forced to soften its stance and allow the debate of some of the controversial laws in the Peruvian congress.
He met Monday with Democratic congressional leaders in hopes of stripping out some of the controversial provisions and working toward common ground with Republicans.
That bill saw much of the same opposition that SOPA, and eventually saw some its most controversial provisions watered down in the final draft.
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That has rendered controversial some things that were once well accepted, like the existence of arbitration services which lighten the burden of the state by providing an alternative arena in which disputes can be settled.
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The IAEA's chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, expressed optimism that the signs of progress from the Korean talks might even nudge Iran and its interlocutors (Germany, Britain and France) to resume their talks, which were broken off last month when Iran resumed some of its controversial nuclear fuel-making activities.
Some have been vocal critics on controversial local plans, such as some wind farm developments.
And some of Falwell's more controversial statements left him shunned even by some allies.
Careful studies, albeit controversial in some quarters, suggest that most football fans are male.
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Thus, some experts in this controversial field are advocating that such a study be done with bapi.
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But many ideas are controversial and some involve treading on the very sensitive toes of national sovereignty.
Hopefully his tenure as president will be a bit less controversial than some of the others of late.
He explained that many of theses cases were long-running and controversial, some of them including accusations of collusion.
And in doing so, the paper is colliding with some of the most controversial issues in education today.
Despite his distinctly un-Thatcherite views, he pushed along some of her most controversial legislation - including the poll tax.
Clauses in the legislation making stalking and voyeurism non-bailable offences are controversial because some feel they could be misused.
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