Sentences with phrase «agencies abuse their power»

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

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Since they have absolute control over the supply of tickets and since they deal only with their own selected list of agencies, it would seem to be within their power to correct the abuses now prevalent.

«For an elected official to utilize a police agency to threaten peaceful protesters merely because they represent a political inconvenience is an egregious abuse of power,» Valle wrote.

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...

increase CPS powers to help children by creating a presumption of neglect if there is an incident of excessive corporal punishment, which will make it easier for child protection agencies to make a finding of abuse that will allow Family Court to take appropriate action to protect a child, up to removing a child when a guardian poses a risk to the child;

State Supreme Court judges are locked in a conflict over whether the state agency that investigates abuse allegations for facilities for people with developmental disabilities — like Sunmount in Tupper Lake — has the power to prosecute.

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.

«These self confessed forgery and abuse of public trust are crimes within investigative and prosecutorial powers law enforcement agencies.

«The only reasonable conclusion we have reached is that the anti-corruption agencies and other institutions of state have allowed themselves to be dictated to by a single vindictive authority which takes pleasure in using power anyhow and in anyway in gross abuse of the constitution,» the forum said in a statement issued on Thursday by Osaro Onaiwu, its coordinator.

PATRIOT gave sweeping new powers to both domestic law enforcement and international intelligence agencies and eliminated the checks and balances that previously gave courts the opportunity to ensure that such powers were not abused.

It was an outrageous abuse of power by the nation's top law enforcement agency, drawing criticism from U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, WILL attorneys, and conservative columnist George Will.

Ryan also attacks the administration for supporting the Environmental Protection Agency's right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, claiming the EPA would be abusing the powers granted under current law.

The conduct of the agency was an abuse of power, and wholly unacceptable.

· The Administrative Court ruled that a policy operated by the Legal Aid Agency to deny legal aid for false imprisonment cases where there had been no deliberate or dishonest abuse of power was unlawful.

CSIS was created in 1984 as a civilian agency (with oversight and review) to address abuses of power that occurred when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) handled both intelligence and law enforcement.

PATRIOT gave sweeping new powers to both domestic law enforcement and international intelligence agencies and eliminated the checks and balances that previously gave courts the opportunity to ensure that such powers were not abused.

From the earliest days of compulsory acquisition legislation in England and Australia, statutory provisions affording powers to governments or their agencies to acquire the property interests of individuals have been interpreted with considerable vigilance to protect those affected against abuse.

As defined by a Houston victim legal advocacy agency, Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence Fact Sheet: Domestic abuse is a systematic pattern of intentional intimidation that is reinforced by violence or the threat of violence, for the purpose of gaining or maintaining power and control over one's parAbuse, Domestic Violence Fact Sheet: Domestic abuse is a systematic pattern of intentional intimidation that is reinforced by violence or the threat of violence, for the purpose of gaining or maintaining power and control over one's parabuse is a systematic pattern of intentional intimidation that is reinforced by violence or the threat of violence, for the purpose of gaining or maintaining power and control over one's partner.