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How to use the word powers- in a Sentence?

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The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.’

Walter E. Williams

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1 year ago

A lot of us anticipated Disney would strike back and not allow its powers be taken away without some kind of response.

Richard Foglesong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If politics decides who can take part in a competition, then sport and athletes become tools of politics, it is then impossible for sport to transfer its uniting powers. We must be politically neutral but not apolitical. We know well that politics rules the world. We know well that our decisions have political implications and we have to include that in our thinking.

Thomas Bach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China is trying to present itself as kind of a new force, standing up against the Western powers or the Western order. China and many of these other countries that are emerging much stronger economically and politically feel that they’re having to abide by the rules made by the United States and some of the European countries.

Gary Locke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We take very seriously the idea of separation of powers and that power should be divided to prevent its abuse.

John Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I ’m certainly willing to have them have all the powers that they need to govern themselves, but none of the powers that can threaten us.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The soft-headedness of the West has happened because we’ve had peace between the great powers for the best part of 30 years, we are currently in the process of discovering stuff that we knew in our bones at the height of the Cold War. And the only reason why we are seeing this now is because one of the great powers has decided it doesn’t like the world order that now exists.

Roman Pilipey/Getty Images Herbst

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the few objectives that the Russian and US leadership share at the moment is avoiding a direct conflict between the two powers, russia knows that a conventional confrontation with NATO would be over very quickly for them. However, there is some sense in ratcheting up the idea that it is willing to take that risk, if it means it can extract more concessions from the West.

Malcolm Chalmers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is long overdue for President Biden to end the COVID-19 public health emergency and relinquish the emergency powers that he just renewed again, president Biden’s inaction and lack of transparency on this are unacceptable.

Brett Guthrie

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

From the standpoint of the global powers, Turkey fits at the intersection of the West and the rest.

Sinan Ulgen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Europe’s vulnerability that was suddenly exposed existed because of a longstanding complacency by Western powers, western Europe had not been willing to listen to the frontline states who warned over the Russian regime’s intent and understood that more expensive energy was a price worth paying in exchange for not being vulnerable to Russian pressure. This complacency left Russia with multiple open goals to kick at in major Western European capitals, most notably Germany.

Keir Giles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Biden Department of Labor has been stocked with former union officials since day one, it’s obvious that President Biden planned to bestow big powers on his union political allies who helped propel him to the White House. The suppression of these apprenticeship programs takes away opportunities from workers just to boost union control over American employees and their training, even as a near-record low percentage of workers are voluntarily associating with unions.

Mark Mix

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have to deal with declining powers, not just rising ones, like Russia, and Putin demonstrates every day that declining powers can be at least as disruptive as rising ones.

William Burns

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He does not have the constitutional authority to do this, he is relying on emergency powers because of COVID. So, wait a minute, you got a Ph.D. in gender studies five years ago and that has something to do with COVID. It is an abuse of power. It’s not constitutional.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I hope it meant what it sounded like it meant. We have been in discussion with the vice president's counsel for some time. So he knows of our interest in having him come before House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, and I am confident that if he is truly willing, that there was a way to work out any executive privilege or separation of powers issues. There is, of course, nothing precluding the vice president should he decide to come before Congress, and I would hope given the severity of the issues we're addressing here and attack on our capital, and attack on our very democracy, that he would be willing to come in.

Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To take a position that you have veto powers over the laws of the state is untenable.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20, my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of powers. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.

White House

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Diesel is what powers trucking. It is what powers our global economy, it can't be ignored in terms of how it's a feed-through into what things cost.

Joseph Sykora

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is about maintaining the separation of powers, not climate change.

Patrick Morrisey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This decision must not be the final word, the Biden administration will use all of its appropriate lawful powers. Congress must act. And your vote ? You can have the final word. This is not over.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This decision must not be the final word, my administration will use all of its appropriate lawful powers. Congress must act. And your vote ? You can have the final word. This is not over.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Brittney is a great human being. No one deserves what Brittney's going through. Enough is (absolutely) enough. It's time for the powers that be to bring Brittney home.

Doug Bruno

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Usually, new hardware comes out later in the year, so don't be disappointed if you don't see something, but even if Apple does, I think the bigger news is not the hardware itself, but Apple's own silicon that powers them.

Ramon Llamas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is the single biggest crisis to hit Bill Clinton since the end of the Cold War, it is possible that this does mark the beginning of a sort of fundamental rupture amongst the great powers that will make Bill Clinton diplomacy see vastly harder going forward.

Richard Gowan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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