The planning board is advisory, with no power to impose policies.

All you're doing is carrying out a sentence that the courts no longer have the power to impose.

The local authorities' powers to impose conditions are very wide.

So how had the few with different aspirations always been able to command the power to impose themselves and their systems?

If one state can't reach the power to impose peace on the world, perhaps several can.

It should be rejected as giving the Government the power to impose political and religious ideology on the rest of us.

The tribunal does not have the power to impose a death penalty.

The power to impose taxes was laid with the central legislature.

Why do Presidents wait till the last moment to push through changes they've had the power to impose all along?

A court only has the power to impose these punishments.