Sutcliffe has been looking at different ways of increasing the powers of the drug enforcement agencies during the 2012 Games.

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It was the scene in February 1992 for the signing of the treaty which created the EU, increasing its powers from those of its predecessor, the European Community.

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Moreover, whatever rationale it once had has certainly ended, now that an increasing number of unpredictable powers can threaten us with weapons of mass destruction.

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New laws decentralizing some powers and increasing funding to outlying provinces were passed last month, but they will take two years to implement, so centralized has control been up to now.

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The day's lows occurred late in the session, after Dow Jones Newswires reported that European Union finance ministers' four-hour teleconference failed to yield a new agreement to beef up the region's rescue funds, dashing traders' hopes for progress increasing the region's bailout powers.

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The Americans and French, the other two mediating powers with Russia, are increasing the pressure.

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The new powers are a reflection of the increasing role of the ombudsman in the health service complaints system since 1996, when that body was allowed to investigate matters of clinical competence for the first time.

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Martin Golden said he believed the proposal would win support from his party's leadership, increasing the likelihood that the city could soon have sharply increased powers over a fast-expanding industry.

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As a group, councils say they agree improvements are needed in some areas, but that their powers are hampered by bureaucracy and have been restricted by the increasing numbers of schools becoming academies, which are semi-independent and are outside of council control.

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