Translation of "Sweeping powers" in German

The proposals before us grant the Commission sweeping new powers.

The imposition of Arabic as the only official language when there is a sizeable minority of Berbers, and the sweeping presidential powers, prompt fears of the establishment of a dictatorship by pseudo-democratic means.

It is true that President Nazarbayev - who holds very sweeping powers under the Constitution - is not a man to brook any anti-establishment activities, although a political opposition does seem to exist and to be growing in strength.

The other issue I wish to highlight is that a bill is currently being debated in the Irish Parliament that would give sweeping and retrospective powers to ministers to create indictable offences in order to comply with European legislation.

Since politicians ask us to entrust them with sweeping powers, it can be argued that we should know as much as possible about their morality.

Lifting the state of emergency that has been in force since 1963 – giving sweeping powers to the regime and its security services – would be both a symbolic and tangible step in the right direction.

The committees formed their own courts, assumed sweeping arrest powers, took over the media, and purged officials who resisted Qaddafi’s will.

Opposition to Morsi hardened following the annulled November 2012 constitutional declaration, by which he had sought sweeping powers – allegedly to protect the country’s infant elected institutions against a politicized judiciary.

The We are all April 6 page on Facebook posts this photograph from a protest in Egypt against sweeping powers newly elected Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi has granted himself.

However, the position was unique in among Japan's external possessions, as the Governor-General had sweeping plenipotentiary powers, and the position also entailed judicial oversight and some legislative powers.

The response to these failings, however, was a demand for greater economic integration, including such intermediate steps as the creation of a “European finance minister” or an EU commissioner with sweeping powers to facilitate closer integration.

While the Anti-Terrorism Bills ask for sweeping new powers, the ACLU and others also worry about numerous Executive Orders that the public knows little about.

In a state of shock France is putting security above freedom, the public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk observes, pointing out that the presumed ringleader of the attacks Abdelhamid Abaaoud was able to carry out his plans despite extensive intelligence activities: "After the Charlie Hebdo attacks the intelligence services were given sweeping powers.

What was done there was to make the RTC, essentially, the senior management organization responsible for the activities for all of these Class 4 orgs, and that paperwork gave the RTC sweeping powers over the Churches.

Britain will now need to amend its law giving state security agents sweeping mass surveillance powers.

On Tuesday Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the country’s prime minister declared victory in a referendum designed to hand Erdogan sweeping powers.

Further reforms to introduce democracy, the rule of law and a free market economy were halted by President Alexander Lukashenko in 1996, when a constitutional amendment granted him sweeping powers and legislative authority.

More to the point, no treaty which grants such sweeping powers to private corporations could be 'balanced' through labour or environmental safeguards, and the treaty process requires signatory countries to bring all domestic legislation into conformity with the investor claims in the agreement.

The declaration of martial law gives Poroshenko and the military sweeping powers, including the right to raid apartments and search cars, curtail press freedom, censor the internet and ban demonstrations.