Sentences with phrase «invoking emergency powers»

For instance, affected countries should give the outbreak top political priority and consider invoking emergency powers, the document says.

In April, Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Investment Heath Tarbert said the United States is considering ways to restrict sensitive Chinese investments in the United States by invoking an emergency powers law and bringing forward some security review reforms for corporate acquisitions.

The move, in which the Philadelphia School Reform Commission invokes emergency powers, comes after the teachers» union spent more than a year resisting concessions...

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In this decision, Justice D.A. Hogarth strikes down sections of a Langley BC by - law regarding dangerous dogs because the City invoked them under their emergency powers when there was no evidence of an emergency.