1.   An Act passed in that year gave power to the court to make an adoption order.

2.   Assembly conservatives adopted rules giving them power over all committees and legislation.

3.   Councils will be given the power to operate fixed penalty schemes like that operated by Westminster city council.

4.   Elections are said to limit Parliament because they give power to electors who ignorantly demand ever more state intervention.

5.   He wants prosecutors to be given powers to appeal where bail has been granted by magistrates contrary to police wishes.

6.   He was given plenary powers to negotiate with the rebels.

7.   Her great good fortune has been an electoral system that has given her power on a minority vote.

8.   I had been given the power to obliterate, to steal a body from its grave and tear it to pieces.

9.   If an Assembly were given tax-raising powers, how would that fit in with the other fiscal arrangements?

10.   In organisations people are only given sufficient power to carry out their responsibilities effectively.