Sentences with phrase «extraordinary power»

She has developed extraordinary powers of concentration and can exert mental effort whenever she needs to.

We believe that a free market is not participated in by governments using extraordinary powers.

The oil and gas industry has extraordinary power over local control, and this movie puts that issue front and center.

It allows the police and security services extraordinary powers to spy on us.

Data centers have extraordinary power requirements, both to keep the equipment running and to keep servers cool.

This gives union bosses extraordinary power, especially since there is no secret ballot in union elections.

And there is extraordinary power among the parents and teachers who see the train wreck of education and they are going to fight in this primary.

We live in a system where administrative agencies exercise extraordinary power.

As such, we moved away from super soldiers with extraordinary powers.

Ryan Reynolds plays a character given extraordinary powers in order to save the human race in the Green Lantern.

That state's powerful regulator, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), given extraordinary powers under the federal Clean Air Act, led the U.S. to adopt stringent NOx restrictions.

Appointed baseball's first commissioner in the wake of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, Landis was granted extraordinary power to «safeguard the interests of the national game of baseball.»

The film is yet another reunion with his frequent collaborator Michael Shannon, who takes on an unusually non-malevolent role as a father on the run with his young son, who possesses extraordinary powers, and childhood friend, played by Joel Edgerton.

How is a Panamera able to produce instant acceleration and extremely smooth running as well as extraordinary power with comparatively low fuel consumption?

This lobby is supported by misinformed and ill - advised politicians who apparently wield extraordinary powers over the forestry authorities.

«Tucked in a corner of the Old Executive Office Building, an obscure group of some three dozen economists exerts extraordinary power over federal rules intended to protect public health, worker and consumer safety, and the environment.»

After drinking a bowlful of blood, Vlad gains extraordinary powers of speed, strength and perception.

Issac and his team could use extraordinary powers brought on to them through Djinn, elemental creatures found in the game.

Concerned Citizens for Saratoga Racing said the governor wants to exert control over what would be a new board of directors and give his Budget Division extraordinary power to control its finances.

The major chains wield extraordinary power not only over the distribution and production of food, but also over the food and labor policy of the U. S. government.

In his art, Wurm consistently realizes architecture's highest aim as he creates works whose extraordinary power lies not only in how deeply they make us feel, but also in how they let us see the complexity of our feelings, in meaningful environments which help us to dwell.

As the architect Le Corbusier once remarked, the purpose of architecture is to move us, then with his work Erwin Wurm consistently realizes architecture's highest aim: he creates works whose extraordinary power lies not only in how deeply they make us feel, but also in how they let us see the complexity of our feelings, in meaningful environments which help us to dwell.

From one of Israel's most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life — the greatest human drama — and the cost of war.

A regular man finds himself in the midst of a conflict in which he has no stake until he eventually gets too caught up in it to turn back; that he gains extraordinary powers because of the effects gravity has his physiology is, of course, helpful.

The very scenario to be guarded against is a president using the pretext of a terrorist attack to seize extraordinary powers.

In our time, or so the argument runs, liberal democracy has attained such extraordinary power and widespread acceptance that it has come to be thought of as the only legitimate form of government.

While Washington turned a blind eye to questionable conduct in the financial industry, Spitzer, with the help of the Martin Act (a piece of New York's General Business Law written in 1921 that allows the attorney general extraordinary powers in fighting financial fraud), was able to build his Sheriff - of - Wall Street reputation.

Lawmakers, though, sounded unenthusiastic about declaring an emergency, which could grant the governor extraordinary powers.

Natural selection has favored combative, power - hungry males, he contends, «because with extraordinary power males can achieve extraordinary reproduction.»

The mythic tale begins in a kind of parallel universe, like a Victorian - era, proto - industrial and very chilly New York, where demons and flying horses are the norm, and thugs in collusion with evil forces have extraordinary powers facilitated by colored stones!?

We had been misled into a war, and the government was taking extraordinary powers against Americans in the name of protecting Americans.

James Luxford: The teaser has landed for Luc Besson's film about a drug mule who acquires extraordinary powers.

Kitted out with all of the latest engine efficiency technologies — direct fuel injection, variable valve timing, and cylinder deactivation — this Corvette makes extraordinary power, and yet delivers an EPA - estimated 17 mpg city and 29 mpg highway.

He's able to articulate universal themes with extraordinary power across a range of mediums, from printmaking to painting and sculpture.

Microsoft's Translator for Android app has been optimised for Honor hardware: its offline mode has the same extraordinary power that other devices can't get without connecting to the cloud.

The investigatory powers bill currently going through parliament will give the security agencies extraordinary powers to snoop on people's online activities.

It was great to read about individuals with extraordinary powers of facial recognition (15 September, p 36).

Facebook and Google (googl) hold extraordinary power in another way.

It has the potential to grant extraordinary powers to peace officers and other «guards», and its archaic wording raises interpretation concerns that ought not to be borne by citizens at a time such as the G20... It could also be the position of the government that the police needed additional powers during the G20.

Women farmers from «Kababaehang Nagtataglay ng Bihirang Lakas» (Women possessing extraordinary powers or strength) from Barangay Los Amigos, Tugbok District, Davao City are practicing FAITH (Food Always in The Home), which is made easier with the support from partner NGOs such as METSA Foundation and MASIPAG, and from the local government of Davao City, through its policy on Organic Agriculture.

Not only is the 12C unique in its class by offering carbon technology, it also has the highest specific power output as well as extraordinary power - and torque - to - weight ratios.

Smith made her complaint under the leadership of Menzies Campbell and she said Rennard exerted extraordinary power over the Lib Dem leadership and that may have made it harder for them to tackle the issue.

Convincingly seizing control of tomorrow gives extraordinary power to steer the choices we make today.

We've sat through an entire generation of fantasy and science fiction films about a protagonist gifted with extraordinary powers who first Resists, then Accepts The Call, which almost always involves saving the world, defeating a powerful villain, and re-establishing the status quo.

DiNapoli also points out that the proposed executive budget has new language that would give the governor's budget division extraordinary powers to, on its own, adjust expenditures up or down and redirect funds to state agencies and authorities, if there's a state financial crisis.

Successive Congresses» delegation to Presidents of extraordinary powers over trade, and the next Congress's domination by exceedingly conservative Republican party organisations imply that the crucial first year of Mr. Trump's presidency could be a time of sharp changes in America's relations with the world — if that is what he wishes.