Whether any such measures would have enabled authorities to detect the cell in Hamburg is not clear.

The law enabled authorities to circumvent the increasingly independent regular court system in cases where people were charged with endangering state security.

Moreover, some agreements enabled local authorities to obtain gains which could not legally be achieved through a condition.

Planning powers go considerably further than simply enabling local authorities to preserve trees.

That should enable local authorities to maintain sensible spending programmes without any need for a real increase in community charge levels.

We will tackle the problem of congestion and environmental damage by enabling local authorities to provide better quality transport.

Badges served two purposes; first they enabled civic and church authorities to control those who were allowed to ask for alms.

It enabled Confederate authorities to collect huge amounts of provisions that had been under Union control.

These mutilations enabled authorities to identify them as Romani on their second arrest.

Eventually a secretive 1930s Ministry memorandum enabled local authorities to give advice, initially on medical grounds only.