Sentences with phrase «own legal powers»

• A NSA strategy document reveals the agency's goal to acquire data from «anyone, anytime, anywhere» and expand its already broad legal powers.

In essence, the FCC has given ISPs the legal power to blackmail any content provider that does not pay them with the threat of a slowdown in service delivery.

The change, it argued, will result in incomplete information and weaker legal powers for parliamentarians who, under the old system, have better control over where the money will flow and how it will be spent.

Denham said Tuesday that she is using all her legal powers to investigate Facebook and political campaign consultants Cambridge Analytica over the alleged misuse of millions of people's data.

A few weeks after the announcement of the review, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) said that the acting director of ATF was unsure if the agency had the legal power to ban bump stocks in the first place, with regulation being perhaps the only available option unless Congress passed legislation.

Unlike competition authorities, the ICO does not have legal powers to raid offices without a warrant.

And former UK attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has argued the ICO's legal powers are inadequate — telling the BBC on Tuesday that the Facebook - CA scandal highlighted a need for «greater powers and greater sanctions».

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The request to appear comes as Britain's information commissioner said she was using all her legal powers to investigate the social - media giant and Cambridge Analytica.

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Failing that, he should simply refuse the government's delegation of legal power, referring the couple to the courthouse after the wedding for the state to confect in its bureaucratic way the amorphous and ill - defined civil union that our regime continues to call «marriage.»

It requires ordained ministers to renounce their long - established role as agents of the state with the legal power to sign marriage certificates.

Let me wind up with the need for NGO Ombudsmen armed with legal powers to take action wherever human rights are vulnerable and violated and also to recommend cancellation of treaties entered into with oblique motives by suspect national leaders.

And the cultural and legal power of the Protestant culture often stifled differing views about religion, gender, and sexuality.

The irony is painful, though, that the same legal power to defend the rights of former slaves in an attempt to rectify the sin is being used today to justify killing children in their mothers» wombs.

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have used their legal powers to change the published General Synod... More

Yet an overzealous evolutionist has no legal power to force anyone publicly to avow that his beliefs are mere «philosophical supposition.»

It has political and legal power.

As a result, conservatives and libertarians typically take a more narrow view of the legal powers of the federal government than do liberals.

Philip Allott, a Cambridge senior international public law expert, has furthermore argued [8] that a triggering of Article 50 by the government would be an exercise of legal powers and that «It is of the essence of legal powers that they have limits.

He has a proper understanding of the appropriate tension between the executive and the judiciary and he's got a good record fighting against cuts to citizen's legal powers, such as on judicial review and legal aid.

So the police need to have the legal powers to take robust action against criminals.

Initially the Tenant Services Authority (the TSA) will operate under the legal powers of the Housing Corporation whilst it consults on the powers set out in the 2008 Housing and Regeneration Act.

The local council were also able to use legal powers only available in Scotland to ban him from renting out homes in the future (something we could easily adopt in the rest of the UK).

Religious arbiters claiming full legal powers will face a five year prison sentence under a bill going before the House of Lords this morning.

Winning a majority gave them the votes — if not the legal power, as this is a devolved parliament dealing with domestic matters — to deliver that.

Most of the Monarch's legal powers were lost by the start of the century — the prerogatives of the Crown were and still are exercised by those accountable to the Parliaments of the United Kingdom — but the Monarch's political influence has also declined.

We have put them on notice that ministers are prepared to use these legal powers, if necessary, after due consideration and process.»

An alternative route may be a wider permissive legal power to grant particular tax treatment to landowners participating in a development that satisfies the defined requirements of a sustainable development with the costs of exercising the power met, at least in part, out of the development.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal: President Obama is using his well - established legal powers to reform a sadly - broken,...

Since 1997, the government has given the police new resources and parliament has provided new legal powers to arrest and try terrorists.

Under the eyes of a nervous nation, Catalonia's regional parliament held a secret ballot, despite an opposition walkout, on a resolution the region's authorities have no legal power to execute.

2) The police do not have automatic legal powers of entry to inspect firearms security.

The demands come as the DfES published guidelines concerning new legal powers available to teachers.

«The lesson I've drawn out of the Snowden allegations is that governments need to be much clearer about the purpose for which they infringe on citizens» privacy; about the agencies that have the legal power to do so; about the authority about which it's done; and, critically, about transparency and accountability systems.»

The legal power of these international conventions is enforced in Russian Federation by the article 236 of the Criminal code «Using prohibited means and methods of waging war» with the penalty up to 20 years in prison.

The Paris agreement does not have any legal power anywhere.

In a particularly damning judgement, three judges at the high court found Grayling had overstepped his legal powers by attempting to restrict legal aid to those who had been in the UK over a year.

John Vine's comments follow accusations of a «cover - up» by Home Secretary Theresa May after she used legal powers to keep parts of a critical inspection by Mr Vine into UK border controls secret.

The union's general secretary, Len McCluskey said: «The government should strongly consider giving shareholders greater legal powers to question and curb these excessive remuneration packages.»

Carmarthenshire council was also told it had no legal powers to grant an indemnity to the chief executive to bring a libel counterclaim.

Sturgeon, the first minister and SNP leader, has decided that consultation is not enough, and insists that her government or Holyrood should be given the legal power to block any changes they disagree with.

Select Committees currently have no legal powers to compel witnesses to attend or answer questions.

Religious arbiters claiming full legal powers will face a five year prison sentence under a bill approved by the House of Lords this afternoon.

The New York state attorney general in particular has more legal power than in other states, notably in business matters.

The Bill, also grants the Office Administrator General, legal powers to forcefully evict an outgoing President and his or her Vice when they exceed the grace period.

Paul Kenny, leader of the GMB union, said: «It is high time that the government took proper legal powers to cut bankers» bonuses.

One week after announcing they were exploring the option of requesting a judicial injunction, Assemblyman Ronald Castorina and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis filed a brief against the city, arguing that expunging the files of the IDNYC program would violate the state's Freedom of Information Law — which explicitly forbids the destruction of documents «with intent to prevent public inspection» — and would overstep the city's legal powers.

She said she planned to strengthen the legal powers of the National Audit Office to allow it to demand access to all BBC documents whenever it wanted.»

Ministers now insist that the emergency law is required to maintain their current legal powers and counter the threat of extremists returning from Syria and Iraq.