Sentences with phrase «arbitrary exercise»

«It is trite law that when the word «shall» is employed in a statute, the primary meaning that the court will assign to it is that such provision is mandatory and leaves no room for discretionary or arbitrary exercise of power except a congruence reading if the statute intends otherwise.

The Strasbourg court he says has treated the Convention not only as a safeguard against arbitrary exercise of despotic power, but as a template for most aspects of life including matters which are governed by no compelling moral considerations one way or the other.

But here it is necessary to point out that when we speak of the reigning Christ we do not mean the monarchical concept of an arbitrary exercise of power.

All such acts, though in the form of legislation, violate the basic requirement of law that it be an act of reason, not an arbitrary exercise of naked will.

But this generated a substantial change; a precedent for the victory of the law of the community over the arbitrary exercise of power.

Personal domination: linked to the placing of production into a hierarchy and the consequent subordination of workers to entrepreneurs, leaders, teachers, etc.; in short, work as subjection to the arbitrary exercise of power by other individuals.

This leads most assessment criteria to be arbitrary exercises and stokes resentment from those teachers whose efforts weren't recognised.

The state teachers» union, meanwhile, blamed King for the stalemate, slamming the the Dec. 31st deadline as «an arbitrary exercise of brinksmanship» that would disrupt services to the neediest schools.

The joy of reading was too often reduced to extracting content without context, the joy of mathematics to arbitrary exercises, without the love of pattern - making that generates conjecture in the first place.

What is surprising us that so few people realize that setting up a single national authority to impose on the whole nation a single decision on every one of the thousands of separate judgment calls involved here is an arbitrary exercise of brute power that will generate all kinds of bad results, and no good ones.

Picking out 10 of the best 2 door sports cars can sometimes feel like an arbitrary exercise, simply because there are so many good, and fun, high performance automobiles on the market.

In this iteration, the household products are paired household objects of the same formal qualities — an arbitrary exercise, though with a certain degree of self - awareness that, instead of becoming predictable, remains poignant and humorous throughout the exhibition.

[129] Accordingly, I find that, in this case, it was the Defendant AIMCo's unreasonable and arbitrary exercise of its discretionary contractual powers that impeded the Plaintiff in the performance of his obligations under the contract of employment and the LTIP Agreement.

Just the arbitrary exercise of authority.