The panel named by the Mayor will have far less sweeping powers.

Head teachers will get sweeping new powers to deal with underperforming staff.

That's because local officials enjoy the same sweeping powers held by the government's top central planners.

In 1992 he shut down Congress and assumed sweeping powers.

Martial law had been declared in the area which gave the government forces sweeping powers.

This could give the group sweeping powers to police treatment of workers.

Such a foreign policy requires (and creates) a strong government with sweeping powers.

The new basic law would concentrate sweeping powers in the hands of the president.

I am just not happy with a coach being given such sweeping powers.

The proposals before us grant the Commission sweeping new powers.