Verb (used with object) : I empowered my agent to make the deal for me. The local ordinance empowers the board of health to close unsanitary restaurants. ,Wealth empowered him to live a comfortable life.    From Dictionary.com. 

The IRS again empowered to enforce the limitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Budget Debate, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Don, who was feeling confident and empowered, is not taking any of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Don Strikes Back] Reference

With reform of the HoL to an elected 2nd chamber acting as a counter-balance to a smaller, fixed term empowered Commons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference

Today, children are "empowered" - blatantly encouraged to circumvent their parents and defy traditional values.    From Wordnik.com.  [EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL] Reference

You can't be "empowered" by something that doesn't exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizens For Batman Unite - New York and Chicago Meet-Ups! « FirstShowing.net] Reference

Are parents "empowered" to cause bodily harm to reporters?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Around Academia's Censorship] Reference

Yes, the USA has "empowered" him a lot, thank you very much.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Why I will join the antiwar protesters.] Reference

Why should members of the Conservative party have to be "empowered".    From Wordnik.com.  [Guest Blog: Richard Robinson on European Candidate Selection] Reference

But apparently women want nothing more from Theater than feeling "empowered".    From Wordnik.com.  [Congratulations to Jane Fonda!] Reference

By the end, Salter says there was a discussion about how "empowered" McCain would be.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the WSJ Opinion Archives] Reference

Madeleine talks of women who claim ‘to be "empowered" by sticking her breasts at a camera’.    From Wordnik.com.  [January 18, 2004] Reference

When he did, he said, he felt "empowered" because he thought the press had distorted his comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rick Sanchez: I've Been Traumatized By Fallout From Firing] Reference

My daughter sees 'empowered' women in films and TV shows, although intermixed with some inanities better suited to 1967.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leo Burnett Man Study.] Reference

The pain of that racial epithet isn't any less when white people say it so how has Black people using it "empowered" them?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Imus: What We Say, Who We Are] Reference

Patients are told that they have been "empowered" to make decisions about their medical care based on their own analysis and values.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Tell Patients to Be Empowered] Reference

Mischa Barton says being single has "empowered" her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrity Photos and News at ExpoSay] Reference

Dr. Frankenstein would have felt "empowered" on Monday, March 9.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

There is no worse slavery than mental slavery that 'empowered' with literacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference

Most disturbingly, the report advocates that children as young as ten be "empowered" to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Some even add that 100 days of assured employment under the NREGA has 'empowered' the rural landless.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said women were 'empowered' by the freedom to wear the face coverings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost of a flea] Reference

Environment secretary Caroline Spelman said women were "empowered" by the freedom to wear the face coverings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

Sonam says she feels "empowered" to be a part of the film which boasts of an array of women in the cast and crew.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.punjabnewsline.com] Reference

We'll know Jules, and we, have made progress when she stops trying so hard to please the boys she's supposed be "empowered" by.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopWatch] Reference

I could only find one picture of the game online … apparently this shows a newly "empowered" worker being screamed at by a foreman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lean Blog] Reference

Those who were ill-equipped to own homes were 'empowered' to get loans with little to no money down at ever expanding interest rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jacksonian Party] Reference

Nikita is an "empowered" female role model, but the show is more beset with paranoia, cynicism and gunplay than the very guy-centric "24.".    From Wordnik.com.  [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference

(believe me, kids know when they are "empowered").    From Wordnik.com.  [Phi Beta Cons] Reference

If society is "empowered" and dialogue not limited to the regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference

Yet newly empowered American conservatives suggest the opposite -- U.N. recognition for Taiwan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beijing Makes Nice--For Now] Reference