Sentences with phrase «against sweeping power»

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This can certainly be frustrating if one wants faster change — or a relief if one fears those in power — but that is precisely why Zuckerberg's appearance was noteworthy: there is a current moving against Facebook, and while it is not realistic to expect that current to already be a wave, it was strong enough to sweep him to Washington D.C. for the week.1

This time, two years later, the Supreme Court sustained Lincoln's position in the famous Prize Cases, a landmark recognizing a sweeping military power of the president to respond to attacks against the United States.

The way the government has appealed, resisted and postponed the application of the rulings against its sweeping surveillance powers, as well as the implementation of privacy protection measures, has led advocacy leaders to denounce an intentional governmental delaying strategy.

Since the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict and the imposition of sweeping sanctions against Russia, Kremlin policymakers have used Russia's growing military power to rally pro-government nationalism.

AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters» worst fears.

You have heard about the epic love story set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of two young men — a ranch - hand and a rodeo cowboy — who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love.

President Ronald Reagan had swept to power by campaigning against «environmental extremists» who he said favored «rabbits» holes» and «birds» nests» over jobs and economic growth.

Some commentators even worry that sweeping powers to alter the weather could accidentally cause wars, or that states may consider deliberately using them against each other.

That is, it called on the court to conclude that because some Fathers and framers were against many tariffs much of the time, they were hostile enough to regulation that might burden interprovincial trade to implant in constitutional text a sweeping restriction on governments» legislative power that somehow didn't come up in the Confederation debates or in any other pieces of Confederation - era evidence.