Sentences with phrase «arbitrary power few»

We have now reached the point where the Prime Minister has in practice a degree of arbitrary power few, if any, English and no Scottish monarchs have rivalled.

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But if, on the other hand, we refuse to regard human socialization as anything more than a chance arrangement, a modus vivendi lacking all power of internal growth, then (excepting, at the most, a few elementary rules safeguarding the living - space of the individual) we find the whole structure of politico - economico - social relations reduced to an arbitrary system of conventional and temporary expedients.

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.

Cooper Union's Board of Trustees proposed a Code of Conduct that would obliterate the power of students in the student judiciary system, give autonomous and arbitrary punitive power to a few select administrators, and create an oppressive and threatening environment where censorship limits...