Sentences with phrase «hands considerable power»

Such a dramatic reduction is a clear sign this policy hands considerable power to employers, who now have far greater capability to mistreat employees than before.

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They don't earn any power due to their title, rather it's their ability to hand out good advice or come up with solutions based on their deep organizational knowledge that gives them considerable sway.

Gove's position as chief whip, working with his new deputy and fellow Osborne ally Greg Hands, marks a considerable extension of the chancellor's power base.

Evidence and testimony showed how some lawmakers can wield their considerable power to extort benefits for themselves or others; how the weak enforcement of lax financial disclosure requirements gives legislators ample opportunity to mask illegal payments as outside income; how moneyed real estate interests spend millions of dollars in campaign contributions to influence legislation; and how power is concentrated in the hands of the so - called three men in a room: the legislative leaders and the governor.

Combined with the considerable budgetary powers handed to him by two of his predecessors (budget - planning supremacy courtesy of George Pataki, and the ability to ram it down the Legislature's throat after the April 1 deadline courtesy David Paterson), the governor's first term has brought a significant consolidation of his authority.

The vigorous, vehement and vexed reactions to any piece I have written that mentions climate change, combined with the power of greed on the one hand and the struggle for subsistence on the other, have convinced me there is no chance that governments will significantly reduce the output of industrial greenhouse gases in time to stave off considerable change to the planet's climate and to human habitats.

While proprietary systems can lead to rapid and targeted innovation (without the need for messy group consensus that is so often the case with open standards), it does leave a considerable amount of power concentrated in the hands of one or very few parties.

The temptation to dip into such growing nest eggs must be considerable for younger people but when you consider the power of tax - free compounding, I'd still urge most to keep their hands off their TFSA for 30 or 40 years.