21.   They affirmatively deprived their states of certain powers, and they affirmatively conferred certain powers upon the federal government.

22.   To their critics, including patients and doctors, they can be hair-splitting clerks on whom their employers confer the power of God.

23.   But there are a few exceptional cases in which the Constitution imposes a duty or confers a power on a particular branch of a State s government.

24.   Extra-ordinary powers were conferred on the executive for security reasons because of the threat of communism by force of arms.

25.   It confers sweeping powers on the president and restricts the freedoms of expression and assembly.

26.   Opponents also say the bills could lead to the infringement of civil rights by conferring extra powers on the prime minister and defense chief.

27.   It was said to confer kingly powers.

28.   One of them conferred absolute powers on General Sani Abacha to legislate and ended the jurisdiction of the courts to consider legal challenges to acts of the military government.

29.   The Kremlin insisted Saturday that Yeltsin had not and would not confer powers on Chernomyrdin or anyone else.

30.   The government on Wednesday also conferred new powers on the police to allow superintendants to issue search warrants in suspected drugs cases.