1.   Moore said Congress had given immigration officials sweeping powers to make such decisions and had sharply limited the power of courts to review those decisions.

2.   New anti-terrorism legislation gives authorities sweeping powers to track online communications, a move that concerns privacy groups.

3.   That law gave states sweeping new powers to impose a host of restrictions on their poverty programs, such as strict time limits on cash assistance to the poor.

4.   The anti-terrorism bill proposed in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing gives sweeping new powers to federal law enforcement agencies at the expense of traditional individual liberties.

5.   The Constitution does not give the government sweeping emergency powers to limit civil liberties.

6.   The Constitution gives the president sweeping powers to dissolve Parliament and appoint cabinet ministers.

7.   The law also gives border agents sweeping new powers to exclude individuals and ban them from returning for five years.

8.   The overall bill is designed to revamp the financial services industry by granting banks sweeping new powers, including an expansion of their ability to underwrite securities.

9.   They said it would give law-enforcement officials sweeping new power to monitor tens of thousands of conversations and data transmissions simultaneously in a metropolitan area.

10.   Throughout the summer, students marched for the repeal of a law that gave authorities sweeping power to imprison dissidents.