Sentences with phrase «applied against the power»

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To guard against potential threats to his power, he maintains a large force of secret police who watch his political opponents, tap many telephones, and even investigate all students applying for admission to a university.

Virtually the entire Bill of Rights has now been applied against the states, achieving three revolutionary results at once: 1) The original understanding of federalism has been obliterated, so that the states exercise their power now largely at the sufferance of the Supreme Court; 2) The Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of Section 1 have become a kind of witches» cauldron from which an exotic brew of postmodern nostrums has been fed into the bloodstream of the political culture; 3) The Supreme Court has successfully arrogated to itself more or less exclusive powers of constitutional interpretation.

On this view, legislation informed by religion or by traditional morality expresses a malicious desire by some citizens to apply power against other citizens.

A powerful V8 engine and well tuned automatic transmission mean lots of power can be applied when needed or you can cruise the highway effortlessly in comfort while listening to your favorite music since the cabin is well insulated against road noise.

Certainly we'd want to apply the Precautionary Principle against overuse of Cap & Trade or of increasing government revenues through new taxes or of expanding the command and control regulatory powers of the state.

It then proceeded to applied this principle to case before it: «[20] It follows from the foregoing that a body, whatever its legal form, which has been made responsible, pursuant to a measure adopted by the State, for providing a public service under the control of the State and has for that purpose special powers beyond those which result from the normal rules applicable in relations between individuals is included in any event among the bodies against which the provisions of a directive capable of having direct effect may be relied upon.»

Yet the Supreme Court has explicitly recognized that jurors have the power to refuse to apply the law, are the conscience of their community, and serve as a bulwark against oppressive laws and their enforcement.

According to this article, the privilege against incrimination does not apply to material which can be obtained from the suspect through the use of compulsory powers but which has an existence independent of the will of the suspect.

UNISON applied for a judicial review of the Fees Order and argued that it was not a lawful exercise of the Lord Chancellor's statutory powers because the fees interfered unjustifiably with the right of access to justice under the common law and EU law, frustrated the operation of legislation granting employment rights, and discriminated unlawfully against women and other protected groups.

(b) a party applying to Court for relief against a non-party to the arbitration, which an arbitral tribunal has no power over; and

Even though the rule - making power was wide enough to enable rules to be made relating to the examination of an officer who was outside the jurisdiction, the presumption against extra-territoriality still applied when considering the scope of CPR 71.