11.   Petritsch, who has sweeping powers, has removed other extreme nationalists from office for less stringent violations and comments.

12.   Pakistan has adopted a stiff anti-terrorism law that gives police sweeping powers to detain suspected militants before they are charged with a crime.

13.   Parliament on Thursday gave President Leonid Kuchma sweeping new powers, which supporters say will speed up economic reform but opponents contend will lead to dictatorship.

14.   A new law passed by Parliament in March gives authorities sweeping powers to detain suspects without charges and try anyone suspected of supporting terrorists.

15.   All such attempts have died without reaching the floor, partly because Russian law gives the president sweeping powers.

16.   Apart from the military, foreign affairs and finance, the plan will allow regions sweeping powers to govern themselves.

17.   Belarusian voters decided Sunday whether to grant their hard-line president sweeping new powers in a controversial referendum boycotted by his opposition and slammed as unfair by observers.

18.   Bosnian Serbs, smarting under recent battlefield losses, responded early Friday by giving their hawkish leader sweeping powers to wage war.

19.   Earlier, the assembly gave itself sweeping powers to fire judges and overhaul the justice system.

20.   Federal authorities are drafting legislation that would give security forces sweeping powers to search, arrest and detain suspected militants.