Sentences with phrase «proposed handing the power»

Rather than let know - it - all managers make decisions about which resources should go where, ministers proposed handing the power to commission services to consortia of GPs.

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The B.C. Liberals abdicated their responsibility and ignored the voices of B.C. communities, First Nations and businesses by handing over decision - making power for the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project to the federal government.

One possibility, of course, is that the United Kingdom will, at long last, emulate its errant child, the United States, one of whose major 18th century contributions to world constitutionalism was precisely the notion of a formal «constitutional convention» that ostensibly possessed a constituent power to propose radically transformations of the existing political order (even if ratification was in the hands of some other body).

«This is why we need to take the power to raise tolls out of the hands of these bureaucrats who are not accountable to voters and require members of the Legislature, who just went before voters, to approve any toll or fee increase as I have proposed (A. 6153),» said Tedisco.

Mr Chaytor's bill proposes handing local councils the power to force bosses to appear before the panels, after several had refused requests to attend.

Workers representatives say the proposed changes put too much power in the hands of company - assigned doctors rather than those chosen by the injured workers.

The shadow home secretary also proposed a habitual residence test for jobseekers» allowance, controls on EU movement after the accession of Bulgaria and Romania and, worst of all, arrest powers for UKBA — easily the most incompetent, heartless and cack - handed division of government.

Critics questioned the independence of county prosecutors, prompting Gov. Andrew Cuomo to propose granting New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the power to investigate civilian deaths at the hands of police.

The abolition of the department of communities and local government is proposed along with handing councils far greater power to raise taxes.

So when Apple proposed in late 2009 and early 2010 that there could be a new way to sell called «agency» which would put retail pricing power for ebooks into the publishers» hands, it met a very receptive audience of publishers.

Meanwhile, a decision on the proposed variance rule change rests in the hands of the Ohio Power Siting Board.

«It's very disturbing when someone proposes technology that would take the power out of the owner or user and hand it to a third party,» Danny O'Brien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said.

Based on observations from how Bitcoin Core evolved and consolidated its power over time (e.g. removing participants who have proposed alternative scaling solutions), the focus on what Bitcoin is called and defined has landed in the hands of exchanges and really just highlights the distance that Bitcoin has walked away from a «peer - to - peer electronic cash» that initially pitched removing intermediaries.