Sentences with phrase «arbitrary power takes»

Locke continues to insist that arbitrary power takes away freedom.

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God is not arbitrary power acting immediately upon the world, as it were, without any mediation, controlling everything in it and, hence, directly responsible for what takes place.

Such cultural violence may take the form of cultural deprivation through the monopoly of cultural institutions by the power elite of a given civilization, or cultural repression through the arbitrary imposition of the values and norms of the powerful.

What it is The puzzle that bitcoin miners solve is completely arbitrary and takes a long time and a lot of computing power.

It loads / installs / downloads everything way too slowly given its power, it takes irritatingly large chunks of internet bandwidth for arbitrary reasons, its party chat still doesn't work nearly as consistently as it needs to and several important features are still buried under too many menus.

In the United States the magistrates are not elected by a particular class of citizens, but by the majority of the nation; as they are the immediate representatives of the passions of the multitude and are wholly dependent upon its pleasure, they excite neither hatred nor fear; hence, as I have already shown, very little care has been taken to limit their authority, and they are left in possession of a vast amount of arbitrary power.

In one sense, the Court's autonomy concern is based on a juristic fiction of a perfect legal system that contains no gaps or lacunae in the protective safety - net it offers to its subjects, and the glorified references to the principle of mutual trust and the EU's foundational values sound somewhat empty in light of arbitral practice and in light of the fact that arbitrary exercises of public power continue to take place within the internal market, with EU law having little to offer to the affected investors.

In public regulation of this sort there is no such thing as absolute and untrammelled «discretion», that is that action can be taken on any ground or for any reason that can be suggested to the mind of the administrator; no legislative Act can, without express language, be taken to contemplate an unlimited arbitrary power exercisable for any purpose, however capricious or irrelevant, regardless of the nature or purpose of the statute.