Sentences with phrase «sweeping emergency powers»

But communicating this by calling for wide - sweeping emergency powers has important implications for how we as a people organise ourselves, and how we make decisions.

Not exact matches

In recognition that the questionable activities of the Police in recent days may cause some outlet of frustration, i hope the Home Secretary Theresa May manages to avoid yet another outbreak of intemperate demands for a State of Emergency, or other sweeping Police State powers.

Had the diesel generators not been swept away as they were during the ensuing tsunami, there would had been emergency power long enough to have allowed a smooth shut down of the reactor and sufficient cooling.