Sentences with phrase «governments abuse their power»

How do we ensure that when one government abuses its power, we don't have to live with the consequences for a generation?

Not exact matches

After weeks of discussions with the Justice Department, Democrats on the House intelligence committee released Saturday a classified memo that counters GOP allegations that the FBI abused U.S. government surveillance powers in its investigation into Russian election interference.

Meicun Weng, the founder of Chinese community and news site Boxun (which regularly reports on Chinese human - rights abuses and is blocked in China), drives home the point about how the Chinese government wields influence with its economic power.

They usually symbolize the undermining of the government's abuse of power because...

They usually symbolize the undermining of the government's abuse of power because rats have a way of undermining beautiful facades.

Moreover, American distrust of government has long fed on the abuses of state power abroad, whether by despotic monarchs, fascist dictators or communist tyrants.

As we know, some in the government will abuse the money and power that comes along with the welfare dollars (conservative and liberal alike).

And if the academy acknowledged that religious intolerance is systemic and involves abuse of power, then its leaders would also have to acknowledge their tenuous position in relationship to the First Amendment, which says that the government will not use its power to «establish religion.»

«The drastic shift of power from the citizen to the government,» he observes, «has rendered obsolete the ultimate remedy for the government's abuses — popular revolution.»

We can thank God that in our countries controls of this nature are limited to a few situations, such as the abuse of «Top Secret» designations by some government officials to protect their own power.

science and math are evil in the minds of the powers that be, and churches are full of government employees seeking salvation from their daily human rights abuses, you can be a parishioner but you really aren't if you do nt fit the category of government employee or super gossiper.

Retrials are coming up for two former leaders in the New York state Legislature who are accused of abusing government power for personal gain.

She accused some people in the government who are abusing their power and supporting the violation of fundamental human rights.

OTOH, if only a few other businesses discriminate, it's not even a practical issue worth abusing the government power in the first place.

Yes, but not without abusing its power by upending the principle that citizens, through their elected representatives in local government, should be able to decide for themselves issues that affect only their communities.

Calling it «a conspiracy» and «a dangerous abuse of power» which «undermines our democratic form of government».

I wrote, said and issued videos on this subject to defend the Constitution against abuse and subversion by a corrupt and looting Government of the national purse, in order to prevent its return to power.

A Queens legislator charges that one of his colleagues abused her power, saying in an ethics complaint that she used her position to sic government agencies on a waterfront restaurant...

Retrials are coming up for two former leaders in the New York state Legislature who are accused of abusing government power for personal gain: ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

«He understands how abuse of power undermines our democracy and has made it a top priority to uphold the integrity of our government by removing bad actors, bringing corruption cases against 40 New York public officials,» she wrote of Schneiderman.

But abusing federal might is absolutely unacceptable, not the least for a government that rode to power on the mantra of change.

Questioning the AGF, the statement held if he has forgotten that while in opposition, APC petitioned the US government and other world powers not to sell arms to the PDP government of Jonathan to fight Boko Haram, alleging human rights abuses.

«The Federal Government has a constitutional and statutory obligation to contribute to the eradication of corrupt practices and abuse of power, ensure proper organization and maintenance of all information in its custody in a manner that facilitates public access to such information, and make readily this available to applicants whenever it is sought.»

We must put Ghana First by equalizing the disadvantages of the political parties in opposition to ensure that they have a fair and even chance against any abuse of incumbency by this Government which is definitely very desperate to remain in power after eight years.

It's about abuse of power and the wrongness of arresting politicians for exposing government failings.

The Governor said that military high command should address the abuse of soldiers by insulating them from carrying out unlawful commands so that the military itself will not be subject to abuse by any government in power who might be drunk with the idea that the military is the armed wing of its political party.

Speaking in an interview with Rainbow Radio, he expressed his disappointment, especially in the Peace Council and other organisation, for remaining quite over the blatant abuse of power and office by the government.

Queens Councilman Eric Ulrich charges that one of his colleagues, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, abused her power, saying in an ethics complaint that she used her position to sic government agencies on a waterfront restaurant after her sons were assaulted outside the establishment.

«This Tory - led coalition government is also abusing its power.

Sani said one of the reasons the devolution of power did not scale through in the National Assembly was the fear that state governments might abuse their powers.

For women to feel empowered enough to come forward to report abuses of power in all facets of our lives, it starts with the creation of safe spaces in our halls of government.

The ex-minister, whose house fence was among structures demolished by the state government, accused the governor of reckless abuse of power.

Ministers and other government appointees can not abuse their powers.»

Commenting, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe said Nigeria's democracy was dying in bits and that the IG's non-appearance was an abuse of government power.

«There has been a dark cloud hovering over government for several years now as a result of federal investigations into abuse of power and corruption,» said the county executive, in an indirect reference to the corruption convictions of former Suffolk police Chief James Burke and former Suffolk Conservative Party chairman Edward Walsh.

He said he would «not tolerate abuse of power from any level of government» but warned critics not to try to take political advantage to «tarnish» the entire department.

He says the bill would replace the state Committee on Open Government with a commission that has the power to bring enforcement actions, to fine elected officials who abuse the Open Meetings Law and compel the release of records of municipalities that do not abide by the Freedom of Information law.

In Season 6 of Homeland, Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) is back in the US on the streets of New York, fighting for the protection of civil liberties and against the abuse of power within the government.

And so it's difficult not to read it on a political level too, a statement on the corruption and power abuses endemic in those closed systems, even as protests against the Ukrainian government's anti-EU isolationism continue to cost lives.

As political scientist Thomas Dye puts it, «intergovernmental competition» was seen by the Founders as an «auxiliary precaution» against the «monopoly abuse of power by a single centralized government.»

Shameful, dishonest, big brother government agencies abusing their power and forgetting who fund's their fat paychecks — taxpaying families.

#related #The law would put other constraints on the federal government, among them checks on the secretary of education's liberal regulatory powers — used and abused to educators» and administrators» despair under Duncan — and language reinforcing existing prohibitions that keep the Department of Education from insinuating itself into curriculum decisions in charter schools.

Also, she said requiring dogs and cats to have microchips is not an abuse of government power, but rather, it's a way to save animals» lives and reduce the costs associated with housing them at the shelter.

The Germans in Europe are the most against this spying because they know and have learned that governments with these kind of powers turn bad, it is a given that these powers will be abused.

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Featuring subject matter ranging from internet ethics to the abuse of government power, the works employ documentary formats as a strategy to construct counternarratives and allow the viewer to bear witness to both individual and collective realities.

You take examples of abuses of government power (some good examples I have to say) as a reason to get rid of government entirely, which makes exactly zero sense.

Only government has the power to abuse authority.

The media's all over this abuse of government power, right?

While interconnections with other countries will curb the potential for market power abuse, the government should closely monitor the situation to ensure the market remains competitive.