How To Use Legal power In A Sentence

  • The new watchdog does not have the legal power to make retailers join its code of practice. Times, Sunday Times
  • Will they have the legal power to force that through? Times, Sunday Times
  • The government uses its legal powers to ensure the fulfillment of moral requirements, while the media can use public opinion to propagate the right, and expose the bad sides of popular behaviour.
  • America was reluctant to cede any legal power to a supranational authority.
  • For example, only the board has the legal power to declare a dividend or to sanction a public issue of securities.
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  • New legal powers to force witnesses to give evidence to select committees under oath. Times, Sunday Times
  • Will they have the legal power to force that through? Times, Sunday Times
  • The new watchdog does not have the legal power to make retailers join its code of practice. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘‘Prerogative’ power is, properly speaking, legal power which appertains to the Crown but not to its subjects.
  • The department has acquired legal powers to close all footpaths within a two-mile radius of any free-range poultry farms.
  • As for off-road vehicles, a national park has scant legal power to stop people driving on open tracks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Security firms do not have the legal power to deal with disturbances, they cannot physically arrest someone.
  • The government has limited legal powers over television.
  • Will they have the legal power to force that through? Times, Sunday Times
  • The legal power to administer the country is the basic mode under the new historical condition.
  • Matthew domesticates this to something more natural in a Jewish context, in which women did not normally have the legal power to initiate divorce. What Jesus Said and Did: 2) Divorce
  • The Commission's role relates only to its legal powers and competence.
  • Some undocumented or mixed-status families in Alabama are also choosing to notarize documents to grant relatives or friends legal power to decide what to do with their children--many of them U.S. citizens--if their parents are detained and eventually deported. Maribel Hastings: HB 56: American Kids Pay The Price
  • The government uses its legal powers to ensure the fulfillment of moral requirements, while the media can use public opinion to propagate the right, and expose the bad sides of popular behaviour.
  • The Spanish Jewish communities enjoyed wide-ranging economic and legal powers.
  • The acts must be acts not authorized by any statute or legal justification, but acts intended to be done in pursuance or execution of some statute or legal power.
  • He scrupled to do evil that good might come of it, and in consequence refused to crush his adversaries because he recognized that he would need to seize illegal powers in order to do it.
  • The stick and the fist backed up the array of legal powers.
  • The tribunal has no legal power to compel his attendance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Had this tribunal the legal power and authority to try and punish this man?
  • Legal powers agreed in 1990 allow officers to enter properties and turn off alarms if the owner fails to do so.
  • The government has limited legal powers over television.
  • Legal experts have highlighted the fact that the tribunal has no legal powers to compel Mr Kennedy to attend the hearing of the planning inquiry because of his non-resident status in Ireland.
  • Body other than a central government body or a local government body, including a non-governmental body which has legal power to enforce a technical regulation.
  • New legal powers to force witnesses to give evidence to select committees under oath. Times, Sunday Times
  • The GMC had been asked for information but inquiry chairman Suzan Matthews decided it would speed the process if she exercised her legal powers.
  • The tribunal has no legal power to compel his attendance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Neither initiative provides any legal powers to facilitate the delivery of that care.
  • But could the spectacle of a completely discredited president -- where the discrediting is in effect led by Jim Baker, not by Nancy Pelosi -- putting American soldiers (including Jim Webb's son) in jeopardy for no truly defensible reason, relying only on his legal powers as president, be the trainwreck needed to generate serious discussion of the merits of a fixed-term, non-replaceable (save for criminal misconduct) president? Balkinization
  • The committee had been improperly constituted, and therefore had no legal power.
  • The government has limited legal powers over television.
  • Legal experts have highlighted the fact that the tribunal has no legal powers to compel Mr Kennedy to attend the hearing of the planning inquiry because of his non-resident status in Ireland.
  • The mediator merely functions as a facilitator and has no legal power to force the parties to accept these suggestions.
  • Both types of families are also choosing to notarize documents to grant relatives or friends legal power to decide what to do with their children--many of them U.S. citizens--if their parents are detained and eventually deported. Maribel Hastings: HB 56: Granting Legal Authority Over Children And Property of Others
  • With such extensive legal power already in the hands of the government, why do we need to make things worse?
  • The tribunal has no legal power to compel his attendance. Times, Sunday Times

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