1.   But Clinton already has that authority under an executive powers statute granting him unilateral powers to deal with national emergencies.

2.   But his spokesman, Richard Riley, said the mayor did not have unilateral power to impose the cuts until the Council acted.

3.   But legislative leaders refused to grant Cavallo unilateral power to restructure state agencies and pension and labor laws that he says he needs quickly to jump-start an economy.

4.   But two years later the Supreme Court held that it had unconstitutionally granted the president unilateral power to change statutes, and it struck down the law.

5.   Clinton last year failed to receive fast-track authority that gives him the unilateral power to craft a trade agreement without amendment by Congress.

6.   Congress last year refused to grant the president the unilateral power to negotiate trade pacts, in part out of concern with NAFTA.

7.   It gives the president unilateral power to change budget laws after he has signed them.

8.   Leading professors of constitutional law and foreign relations law filed a brief in that case asking the court to reject presidential claims of broad unilateral power to make war.

9.   Opponents say it gives a president too much unilateral power to repeal an act of Congress.

10.   Ruff has refused to comply until Burton, who has extraordinary unilateral powers to release confidential information, agrees to limit access to it.