The elector authorised a visitation of the church, a power formerly exercised by bishops.

In the royal household many were reluctant to surrender the powers they had formerly exercised, and others were disappointed that the husband of the Queen was a foreigner.

The Board exercises the appellate review authority formerly exercised by the United States District Courts.

It assumed the role in the Irish Free State of that formerly exercised by the Postmaster General of the United Kingdom.

In 1443, Albert formed a league directed mainly against Nuremberg, over which members of his family had formerly exercised the rights of burgrave.

Original jurisdiction was formerly exercised by a separate provincial court, known as the Court of Audience.

In recent decades Italy has devolved many powers formerly exercised from Rome to regional governments - with varied success.

With all the recent mergers and consolidations of publishing houses, agents have come to fill the hand-holding and cheerleading roles formerly exercised by editors.

Prerogative powers were formerly exercised by the monarch acting on his or her own initiative.

It also took over almost all the powers formerly exercised by the Convocations of Canterbury and York.