Sentences with phrase «vast powers over»

The mayor «s forces handed Kelly «s vast powers over the park district, with its $ 230 million budget and 5,000 full - time and part - time jobs, to Jesse Madison, the city «s consumer services commissioner.

And where others see little regard for Main Street, Obama sees a focus on how the government can do more to bolster the economic prospects of poor - and middle - class Americans, and someone who would carry those concerns to the Fed, which has vast powers over interest rates and the financial system.

Little - understood is that the Fed has vast powers over how the financial system works — credit standards, check - clearing systems, community lending.

In addition, Barr's case offers a rare glimpse into the practices of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), an obscure agency within the White House that wields vast power over the entire federal bureaucracy through its authority to vet recently hired workers.

Eli Broad is a wealthy individual, accountable to no one but himself, who wields vast power over our public schools.

Not exact matches

Indeed, thanks to a snowy winter and cool spring, the snowpack covering the entire Pacific Northwest — the vast majority of which is over 1,000 metres elevation and still snowbound — is creating a glut of zero - emission energy as that huge annual reservoir melts and powers hydroelectric turbines.

Yes, since a president's power over the executive branch is vast.

Research has shown that deploying renewable energy over a vast area connected by a transmission system would actually increase reliability and reduce intermittency compared to smaller networks since it would route power from areas where there is sunlight and wind to areas where there isn't.

One of the most impressive effects of the power of collective vision which is conferred upon us by the formation of a common brain is the perception of «great slow movements», so vast and slow that they are only observable over immense stretches of time.

The growth of modern scientific civilization has brought both opportunities and perils for democracy: opportunities in the vast new resources made available to mankind, and perils in the increased power men can use against and over one another.

Whether it means paying a bit above ask from time to time to secure the necessary talent or through their willingness to sink their own vast resources into the reclamation project, our next owner must do everything within their powers to prove that they place winning over the bottom - line.

It may surprise you, but for the vast majority of people opposed to abortion, that opposition has nothing to do with «wanting power over a woman's body».

In its current ossified form, the British state offers an unpalatable mix of medieval hierarchy and techno - authoritarianism, symbolised in recent weeks by an enthroned Queen Elizabeth II announcing plans to deepen the government's already vast powers of electronic surveillance over her subjects.

Cuomo would be given vast new power over the Port Authority, including the authority to unilaterally remove and appoint commissioners, under draft legislation that has been privately circulating among Albany lawmakers this week.

David Cameron and senior Tory sources have already made it clear they oppose giving Holyrood greater powers over taxation given the UK's vast deficit and the crisis in public spending.

Common Core effectively destroys local control of our schools, transferring community educational initiatives to the vast and faceless federal bureaucracy, shifting yet more power from the local community to Washington so that it can impose continental control over the education of our nation's children.

Even if we fail to find the miracles that allow us to make and then transport hundreds of gigawatts of power over 3,000 miles at pennies per kilowatt - hour, and even if we can never find photovoltaics that are as cheap as dirt, the enterprise of trying to do it will push our science and our engineering so far forward that we'll generate a cornucopia of unexpected new technologies that will be the basis of vast new industries.

His designs advanced alternating current at the start of the electric age and allowed utilities to send current over vast distances, powering American homes across the country.

The very worst impact from an exploratory «frack» would be the discovery of vast reserves of methane, which profit - hungry petroleum companies, aided and abetted by power - hungry politicians, would fall over themselves to bring to the surface and burn.

After awakening from an amnesia - inducing slumber, our hero must explore the vast game world in order to stop a power - hungry doctor from using the cave's rabbit - like creatures to take over the world.

Despite its few shortcomings, the 3.5 L mill is a vast improvement over the 3.0 L V - 6 that powered the Zephyr.

Although the Genesis» new twin - scroll unit and uprated intercooler make for a vast power improvement over the old car, the way this engine builds boost tends to promote surging on the street as well as corner - exit oversteer on track.

With extra power over the base V6 and offering as standard some desirable sporty features picked from the vast options list including adaptive air suspension, sport exhaust and bigger brakes, the GTS is a worthy addition to the Macan range.

But what makes the Power Wagon a great competitor is its vast upgrades over the standard Ram 2500.

Youtube, on the other hand, is very, very new, the vast influence of its many big personalities only truly coming to power over the past few years.

Of course the game has a vast shadow looming over it in the form of a truly atrocious PC launch that caused a massive backlash, one so powerful that Warner Bros., a company renowned for having poor customer treatment, pulled it from sale on Steam, largely owing to Steam's new refund policy that gives consumers power to show their displeasure from a monetary standpoint.

In the previous games it was possible to use a special set of powers called «kyokaningen» (human plus) and «juryokata» (over weight), when used, vast swathes of the parts list became irrelevant.

Ubisoft's new open world shooter is a true testament to the power of listening to fans and critical feedback, a vast improvement over Far Cry 4 and Far Cry Primal.

During its celebratory opening days, the museum showcased five performances from its collection, acquired over the past decade — among them, Tania Bruguera's iconic meditation on state power Tatlin's Whisper # 5 (2008), in which two police officers on horseback ride through the gallery (in the Tate's case, the vast Turbine Hall), performing pointless crowd - control exercises.

Re # 10: It's not the mirrors as mirrors, it's the idea of destroying the natural ecosystems over vast areas of land in order to generate electricity — and the exercise in either cynicism or sheer obliviousness that is required to call the result «green power».

According to EIA forecasts, the vast majority of coal demand over the coming decades will be from existing power plants, with currently existing plants still accounting for two - thirds of total demand in 2030.

The scientists are merely useful tools to them, used to get control of the public so they and their friends can enrich themselves via carbon taxes and carbon trading schemes and redistribute your wealth to the poorer countries under the guise of saving the planet (where I'd venture a guess the vast majority will disappear into a numbered bank accounts someplace), all while enriching themselves and attempting what I feel could be a part of an attempt to gain dictatorial power over an entire planet.

But over the past three years, as they have devoted tremendous resources to the fight against TransCanada Corp.'s proposed oil pipeline, they potentially have diverted vast resources from other goals many environmentalists consider more important, such as limiting power plant pollution and taxing carbon emissions.

Armed with vast financial resources and sweeping investigative powers, state and federal prosecutors have an unfair advantage over those who have been accused of a crime.

An audience of over 250 at The Royal Society on 6 March was riveted by a presentation which asked what the vast increase in processing power would mean for society — and for lawyers and the way in which they work.

Though the system called «Google Now» will be implemented on a vast array of Android devices over the next few years, right this minute its incredible voice recognition and search powers sit only on the Nexus 7.

The Japanese original equipment manufacturer is said to have equipped its upcoming mobile device with the Snapdragon 845, Qualcomm's latest and most powerful system - on - chip to date which is expected to power the vast majority of high - end smartphones released over the course of this year.

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