powers
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Appearing on Love Island at the peak of its powers in 2017, she achieved instant fame and recognition, which she has managed to successfully leverage into a media career that not many other reality stars have been able to replicate.
From BBC
The fast pace of the program’s development worried Western powers who imposed increasingly stringent trade restrictions.
Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution — legislation meant to check presidential war-making authority — the president must notify Congress within 48 hours of initiating military action and seek approval if operations extend beyond 60 days.
From Salon
There was no such proclamation during the unpopular Vietnam War, and it was then that Congress sought to reassert its powers.
From Barron's
In 1973 it adopted the War Powers Resolution, passed over Richard Nixon's veto, to become the only lasting limit on unilateral presidential military action abroad.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
