Local administrations were granted the power to impose curfews, not widely seen in France since the 1950s.
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Regulated utilities are granted the power of eminent domain to build and maintain their infrastructure, but in return must offer service to all residents.
Gov. PALIN: There's been some evidence of some in the Republican Party just taking it for granted that power and authority was given them, and that's been very, very, very unfortunate.
The real refrain of this disturbingly graceful film, though, is that only in being granted the power to hurt, and the chance to wield it, can we ever hope to rekindle the fires of youth.
Since the creation of the modern City Council in 1989, when the municipal legislature was granted full power over the budget, a bill has never made it to the floor without the express support of the speaker.
Edgeley Green Power were granted planning permission to construct the facility near the existing Shoreham Power Station on Tuesday evening.
"That oversight is absolutely essential, " McCain said, also arguing against the unprecedented power granted to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in managing the plan.
Yet this is where Mr. Obama has granted himself unprecedented power.
Burns said the United States also may back adding two or three nonpermanent seats to the council but said no new members should be granted the veto power.
It is only the second time the House of Lords has used a new power granted under the Lisbon Treaty, which allows objections from parliaments on the grounds of "subsidiarity".
The European Parliament could also use the power granted to it under the 2009 Lisbon Treaty to vote down any deal reached by EU governments if its calls for increased funds are ignored.
So even granted the will-power to stabilise the economy, privatise state property and liberalise markets, would it work?
The attorney general said the US Congress had the previous October granted President Bush the power to go to war with Iraq.
In doing so, it rejected an interpretation of the 21st Amendment that granted the states the power to regulate all aspects of alcohol within their borders.
After much thought, Ms. Lee granted a health care power of attorney to her father, and has agreed to stay on life support for the time being.
This ludicrous divergence between two areas of London derives from the Cinematograph Act of 1909, which first granted local authorities the power to license cinemas in their areas.
Planning permission has already been granted for two UK power stations to burn bioliquids, including palm oil, and the government plans to promise future subsidies, without which the fuels are uneconomic.
The advisor simply manages the account under a limited power of attorney granted by the client.
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It reconceives many words we take for granted -- such as power or defense.
Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people.
On Thursday China said that it granted its border patrol police the power to board and search ships in the area.
On the fiscal policy side, some have argued that concerns about renewables do not take into sufficient account the distorting effects of current subsidies and tax relief granted to conventional, particularly fossil, power sources.
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Granted, that system also relies on a Power PC architecture.
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Thomas could only muster one supporter, fellow conservative Antonin Scalia, to argue that the law exceeds the power to regulate interstate commerce that is granted to Congress under the Constitution.
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What they fail to recognize is that power and influence are honestly earned, not granted.
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Wales had a "lop-sided" system of devolution, with law-making powers granted by a referendum in March, but far less power over its finances.
The simple fact is that the top college football coaches are granted not just increased pay, but a centralization of power that enables and perhaps even encourages improper conduct.
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Okay, so technology was pretty much crap compared to what we take for granted today, especially when it came to the computational power required to get to the moon and back.
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