Sentences with phrase «sweeping powers»

A NEW carbon cop will be given sweeping powers to enter company premises, compel individuals to give self - incriminating evidence and copy sensitive records under a carbon tax package that will force about 60,000 businesses to pay 6c a litre extra for fuel.

GPs have been handed sweeping powers in the coalition government's health white paper, which confirms that primary care trusts will be abolished by 2013.

Pai, a Republican named by President Donald Trump to head up the FCC, unveiled plans last week to scrap the 2015 landmark net neutrality rules, moving to give broadband service providers sweeping power over what content consumers can access.

Labour has failed in a bid to halt plans the Opposition claimed would hand sweeping powers to ministers to close hospitals.The Government saw off an amendment which would have cut Trust Special Administration from the Care Bill, winning a Commons vote 297 to 239, majority 58.

Nigel Farage warned sweeping powers could not be extended to Scotland without a fair settlement for England

Time and again Martin has pulled down the shutters, exploiting sweeping powers under the Freedom of Information Act.

But May is also facing pressure from the many pro-Remain lawmakers in her ranks, who are up in arms over a new «EU Withdrawal» bill that will effectively allow the government sweeping powers to change laws already in force without consulting parliament, once the U.K. leaves the EU.

We have been very vocal about certain aspects of the bill, which appear to give Canadian authorities and government agencies sweeping powers to set up dragnet digital surveillance, with little oversight or accountability.

As MPs gather on Monday for the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, Chair of the Bar Andrew Walker QC said: «The Data Protection Bill will give the Information Commissioner's Office sweeping powers to access legally privileged material.

While its wind turbines can only supply power for short periods, the Hornsdale wind farm is capable of supplying energy to up to 30,000 homes and can act as a last - ditch defense against sweeping power failure.

The same controversial and sweeping powers on data retention were added to the Investigatory Powers Act (AKA the Snoopers» Charter), which passed into law late last year a matter of weeks before Dripa — which at the insistence of the Liberal Democrats had a built - in self - distruct date of 31 December, 2016 — was set to expire.

Cuomo initially wanted the corporation to be able to terminate the contracts of projects but lawmakers balked at giving the new agency such sweeping powers.

In both cases, it's clear the agencies were demanding sweeping powers to maximise their room for manoeuvre in the future.

ALBANY — Lawyers for New York City argued before the state's highest Court Wednesday that the Board of Health has sweeping powers allowing it to restrict the size of sugary...

The closest it comes in a democracy is where and when there is a state of emergency, where sweeping powers are granted the President to bypass due process.

Instead, the new legislation will include sweeping powers for the DfE to force schools in «underperforming» local authorities to convert to academy status.

They also love Morris Louis» passionate purity and sweeping power as well as Kenneth Noland's bold, brilliant, pure color improvisations.

Battering winds and sweeping power outages cut power to a majority of the state's 20.6 million residents.

The agency was granted sweeping powers last year, allowing it the right to demand documentation, spot - check or raid exchanges» offices.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a Republican appointed by President Donald Trump, proposed in April to scrap the 2015 landmark net neutrality rules, moving to give broadband service providers sweeping power over what content consumers can access.

Mr Farage said he supported devolution across the United Kingdom, but warned sweeping powers could not be extended to Scotland without a «fair» settlement for England.

Along with the explicit powers under the Criminal Code, police had sweeping powers under Common Law to deal with people at the G20.

Pai's proposal marks a victory for big internet service providers such as AT&T Inc, Comcast Corp and Verizon Communications Inc that opposed the rules and gives them sweeping powers to decide what web content consumers can get.

Moreover, Samir Morcos, the sole Coptic presidential aide, resigned in November to protest the sweeping powers that Morsy gave himself in a controversial constitutional declaration.

In many countries the laws on contempt are being reviewed to check the sweeping powers that it gives the court to investigate, prosecute and sentence contemnors in their own cases.

And while affirming the Great Repeal Bill and a desire for the «widest possible consensus», we heard nothing to guarantee that the sweeping powers ministers want to do away with laws out of sight of MPs will be accompanied by the very highest standards of accountability.

It was a source of concern for the opposition party and certain segments of the population from the very start, and after the end of the Bush administration, when Obama had those sweeping powers, the questioning of those broad powers gained more momentum as previous supporters suddenly found it to be troubling.

The commissioner of investigations has sweeping powers to examine the operations of nearly every department, including the awarding of contracts to outside vendors.

The government is facing claims from Remain supporting MPs that it is giving itself sweeping powers to change legislation without proper Parliamentary scrutiny.

The office once had sweeping power to prosecute election law violations, but that ability was ceded to the Board of Elections in the 1970s.

Labour will oppose plans in the «great repeal bill» to give ministers sweeping powers to rewrite laws with minimal interference from parliament, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

Labour is appealing for Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs to help block measures it says will give ministers sweeping powers to close hospitals.

This semi-adaptation of «Moby - Dic «k fails to capture the sweeping power of its source material; more damning, it never tells a compelling story of its own.

Though this may seem arbitrary, it has a very important purpose, which the NH ruling explains in detail: without the harm requirement, courts would have sweeping power to override the will of voters and their elected representatives.

Alberta has passed landmark legislation giving it sweeping power to intervene in oil and gas exports that could result in punitive price spikes in British Columbia in the dispute over the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.

Some commentators even worry that sweeping powers to alter the weather could accidentally cause wars, or that states may consider deliberately using them against each other.

The Civil Forfeiture Office utilizes the sweeping powers of the Victims Restitution and Compensation Payment Act to launch civil claims against anyone they suspect has committed crime utilizing their property or who may have acquired property from crime.

Although the threat of terrorism is a modern - day reality, many Canadians do not have a full appreciation of the sweeping powers contained in the laws we have created to combat terrorism and enhance national security.

Aside from the sweeping powers in relation to limitation that the Bill provides, it is of note also that the Bill is to have retrospective effect.

Between these two authorities, police had sweeping powers to arrest and search (incident to arrest) people at the G20 who were little more than unruly or about to engage in any type of unruly or illegal activity.

The almost wholly unchecked and sweeping powers we give to judges in the fashioning of sentences are terrifying and intolerable for a society that professes devotion to the rule of law.

The «American way» may also impact a Canadian - led cross-border investigation as a result of the sweeping powers of entities such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

As a result of the regulatory December 31, 2013 amendments, immigration now has sweeping powers to compel disclosure by employers and can enforce serious consequences for non-compliant employers.