Sentences with phrase «gives vast powers»

Remember guys the bureau has been given vast powers by the government and in a way they represent or speak for the government.

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Vast stores of hidden wealth, gained by committing every crime in the book, and millions of fear - driven, deluded «slaves» who have been trained to give their very souls if need be... all under the thumbs of mere humans who use their power for every vice imaginable.

Not only has he been able to reach with his message many in the Praetorian guard and in that vast establishment of slaves, freedmen, and persons of every station known as the household of Caesar, but the very fact that he is in prison for his faith has given what little preaching he can still do added power, and inspired other Christians to preach more earnestly than ever.

All of this gave the Templars vast wealth and power; it had nothing to do with Mary Magdalene!

Cuomo would be given vast new power over the Port Authority, including the authority to unilaterally remove and appoint commissioners, under draft legislation that has been privately circulating among Albany lawmakers this week.

Cuomo has been criticized for preferring an arrangement in Albany that allows Republicans to retain power in the state Senate at the expense of his own party, allowing him to play the chamber off the vast Democratic majority in the Assembly, giving him the veneer as a third party who can broker compromises during high - level negotiations.

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.

In fact, given the amount of computing power advanced civilisations are likely to have at their fingertips, it will probably have been done a vast number of times.

Or defend the reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, a spying bill that violates the Fourth Amendment and gives vast, unchecked surveillance authority to the government, and extends the powers of the National Security Agency to conduct surveillance of Americans» international emails and phone calls.

Vast passenger room, available all - wheel drive, and solid construction make the Dodge Charger a reasonable choice for buyers who need the room of a large car but don't want to give up power or performance in the process.

Of course the game has a vast shadow looming over it in the form of a truly atrocious PC launch that caused a massive backlash, one so powerful that Warner Bros., a company renowned for having poor customer treatment, pulled it from sale on Steam, largely owing to Steam's new refund policy that gives consumers power to show their displeasure from a monetary standpoint.

Nuclear powered reactors are capable of producing vast amounts of electricity with no greenhouse gas emissions, which is clearly a great benefit given current concerns about climate change.

Leaving the PA would also politically isolate the U.S., given that the vast majority of countries — including all other major global powers — have signed on to the PA and seem committed to staying in it.

For the vast majority of that time period, the commerce and industry of the north (powered to a great extent by hydro power prior to the widespread adoption of coal as a fossil fuel) produced much higher GDP per capita than the agricultural economies of the South, particularly because the infamous «three - fifths compromise» that gave the South Congressional representation based in part upon the number of slaves who lived there (30 % or more of the population of many states) did not apply to capitation taxes.