Synonyms for powers
pow·ers

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1. List of paraphrases for "powers":

   competences, credentials, power, authorities, authority, competencies, skills, prerogatives, faculties, forces, competence, pouvoirs, branches, responsibilities, abilities, attributions, strong, jurisdiction, competency, potencies, expertise, powerhouses

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1. Danielle Weston:

   The vicious censure resolutions to strip Trustee Mary Bone and me of the powers and duties bestowed upon us by the voters is a naked political hit job, the majority on the board are diverting taxpayer dollars and manpower away from students and teachers to destroy our reputations and inflict financial pain.

2. William Shakespeare:

   Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.

3. Antonin Artaud:

   There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.

4. Franklin Pierce:

   If the Federal Government will confine itself to the exercise of powers clearly granted by the Constitution , it can hardly happen that its action upon any question should endanger the institutions of the States or interfere with their right to manage matters strictly domestic according to the will of their own people.

5. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   In coming weeks, the powers are liable to reach a framework agreement with Iran, an agreement liable to leave Iran as a nuclear threshold state, something that would chiefly imperil the existence of the State of Israel, as prime minister of Israel, I am obligated to make every effort to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weaponry that will be aimed at the State of Israel. This effort is global and I will go anywhere I am invited to make the State of Israel's case and defend its future and existence.