Sentences with phrase «already vast powers»

In its current ossified form, the British state offers an unpalatable mix of medieval hierarchy and techno - authoritarianism, symbolised in recent weeks by an enthroned Queen Elizabeth II announcing plans to deepen the government's already vast powers of electronic surveillance over her subjects.

Not exact matches

The vast majority of people who use airguns do so lawfully and there are already sufficient powers available to deal with the small minority who break the law.

The coalition has already travelled further, edging towards an approach that, as one Tory minister puts it, aims to smash «vast monopolistic activities and recreate power at the peripheries».

David Cameron and senior Tory sources have already made it clear they oppose giving Holyrood greater powers over taxation given the UK's vast deficit and the crisis in public spending.

The powers that be already have a vast collection of tools available for spying on you — from your credit card purchases to your ATM withdrawals to onboard GPS systems to satellites that can read a license plate from Earth orbit.

PS4P «pales» I guess, but the vast majority of people either already have, or will buy the base systems, so the power angle is pretty moot in terms of hardware sold, and there is no reason to worry about Sony for the time being.

Solar in Mongolia: Mongolia takes tentative steps with large - scale solar power plants, but the vast country of steppes and deserts is already the king of distributed solar power.

In the United States the magistrates are not elected by a particular class of citizens, but by the majority of the nation; as they are the immediate representatives of the passions of the multitude and are wholly dependent upon its pleasure, they excite neither hatred nor fear; hence, as I have already shown, very little care has been taken to limit their authority, and they are left in possession of a vast amount of arbitrary power.