Sentences with phrase «one's formal powers»

Then you can earn more formal power from your organization over time.

Regardless of how much formal power any given role has in a school community, all participants remain dependent on others to achieve desired outcomes and feel empowered by their efforts.

Was this then a spectacular assertion of Parliamentary authority by a legislature which has comparatively weak formal powers of scrutiny over military matters?

But can state chiefs, historically weak and with few formal powers, deliver?

While chief state school officers have strictly limited formal powers, most have unrealized potential for influence.

Close cropping and the geometry of shapes intensify formal power.

At the same time she draws on Minimalism's use of industrial materials and deploys scale, movement and light to create art of great formal power and beauty.

However, it is in the seductive and charged formal power of her work, where formats and materials shifts from one substance to another, that she quietly alludes to the very contemporary idea that the body may be a fugitive entity without a precise shape or location.

On view at Frieze were works on paper: sketches of everyday life, observed with great energy and wit, but also with tremendous formal power.

The Scientific Council's liaison in Brussels, whose job is called «secretary - general,» has few formal powers is seen by many as a lame duck.

Instead, in the case of Batchelder, the vote to close the school was actually a vote to take the school and give the building to Montessori Magnet parents, teachers, and students, all groups with more formal power.

This is a short reminder to our college contacts about an often overlooked feature of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA)-- the assignment of formal powers and duties to the Chair of the Board of Governors.

A new book illuminates the formal power, moral depth, and intellectual brilliance of important American poet Anthony Hecht.

This role gave legitimacy to Protestantism's special place in the culture, even after it lost much of its formal power.

(Ironically, today many people would maintain that the formal powers held by the City of London represent one of the greatest threats to democratic sovereignty — illustrating the equivocal nature of such constitutionally - protected corporate rights.)

Perhaps most importantly, Terry Moe and William Howell have argued that the Constitution's language that the president «shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed» builds ambiguities and discretion into the formal power structure that the president can shrewdly exploit.

Secondly, while having no formal powers over schools, the mayor should use the influence afforded to his or her office to encourage schools to focus on improving numeracy and literacy attainment.

Through our research we found that, since being granted these formal powers, select committees have emerged as influential actors in the public appointments process, resulting in a recalibration of the balance of power between government and parliament.

However, the first slight crack in Cameron's position emerged when he acknowledged that there might need to be changes to the Commons standards committee, including giving a formal power of veto on its decisions to lay members.

One obvious point is their formal powers (a second chamber which can throw legislation out will be more powerful than one which can just request a rethink).

The review noted that the scientific council's liaison in Brussels, the secretary - general, had no formal power.

As the Scientific's Council's liaison to the Executive Agency, you will have few formal powers.

The group has no formal power, but it does have the dean's imprimatur in the form of a 28 September letter urging cooperation, which was sent to the entire natural sciences faculty, as well as administrative support from his staff.

Chiefs can make smart use of their formal powers, for example signaling what must be present in a district's application for state or federal funds before the chief will approve it.

Chiefs» formal powers may be limited but they can grow (and recede) depending on how they exercise political leadership and who they are able to convince to support them.

State chiefs have new responsibilities under the Every Student Succeeds Act, but their formal powers are still limited.

They have no formal powers.

Mayors have to demonstrate extraordinary network leadership to expand their reach and impact beyond the limits of their formal powers.

These artists have been said to work impulsively or intuitively, which is not to detract from the formal power of their work.

His work is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, resisting confinement to one medium and roaming freely and fluently among drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and painting.

Even at the end of his life, he continued to work in the remoteness of Maine; Hartley never lost his formal power and uncompromising sense of realism.

And yet, provocative as it is in conceptual terms, the painting itself has next to none of the formal powers at which Picasso excels and which Motherwell obviously respects.

Recently, Brady has taken a turn into abstraction and found for his work the formal power that mostly eluded him until now.

To the contrary, it would seem that the Court considers the requirement of sharing information with the Parliament all the more important in areas in which the Parliament's formal powers are more limited, such as the CFSP.

A court has no formal power outside its jurisdiction; a European court judgment (which is what happens if a company violates EU rules) can't be directly enforced in the US, because US law enforcement doesn't obey the orders of European courts.

Thus, there is no formal power calculation for the proposed sample size of 126, but this represents a substantial and adequate number of participants representative of those likely to benefit from the intervention.