Sentences with phrase «balance against power»

There's an idea that there is, in fact, a fourth branch of government that provides a final check and balance against power: the press.

Not exact matches

To beat the cold, China has temporarily eased restrictions on coal production until the end of the year as Premier Li Keqiang said there was a need to balance demand to ramp up power output against pollution control.

Bonds and money market accounts and certificates of deposits provide some balance against a turbulent stock market and give you a safe harbor for your money; stocks give you the earning power that can turn your contributions into a sizable nest egg.

According to this theory, if, for example, the U.S. inflation rate is higher than the Canadian inflation rate, then the purchasing power of Americans will erode compared to that of Canadians, and the value of the U.S. dollar against the Canadian dollar will be adjusted in the markets to balance the purchasing power of the two currencies.

In George Marshall's State Department Policy Planning Council, Niebuhr argued that humanity's sinfulness made necessary political strategies that balanced power against power.

By republican structure, of course, I mean the separation of powers and the elaborate checks and balances that the founders of our country wrote into the Constitution as the main bulwarks against dictatorship and tyranny, which they greatly feared.

Justice is not a fully satisfactory goal in itself because it falls short of love, being dependent upon coercive power on the one hand, and requiring rational calculations in the balancing of rights against rights on the other.

American policy - makers have justified their counterrevolutionary stance on the basis of the threat of international Stalinism, and these rightist regimes — even though they may have been distasteful — were preferable to leftist forces which tilted the balance of power against our side.

Reuters: Islamists push own agenda in Iraq's Sunni protests against Shi'ite power Street protests in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland pose a new challenge to Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al - Maliki as shock waves from the Sunni - led insurgency in nearby Syria strain his country's fragile political balance.

Against the run, he plays with balance and power at the point of attack and flashes the quickness to penetrate / disrupt.

The people arguing against you believe this is a balanced team that the defense should only be asked to keep the opponent's score low allowing the high powered offense to do its job any more than that would be a bonus.

Traditionally Everton had an excellent record against Spurs but times are changing as the balance of power in this rivalry is shifting.

The phrase expresses the belief that constitutional restrictions on governmental power must be balanced against the need for survival of the state and its people.

As these two forces interact, I don't think it'd be that surprising to see France pivot from backing up Germany to balancing against the strongest power on the continent, and challenging the Germans on their vision for the future of the European economy.

Where as other ethnocentric forms of nationalism are then seen as Equalist movements to balance the roles of power and revolting against the oppressors, see Malcom X for instance.

They must litigate without the power to cross examine witnesses giving evidence against them, who may remain anonymous and absent from the court, without publicly funded legal representation, without any restriction as to the material placed before the fact - finding court, and can be found responsible for conduct on a mere balance of probabilities.»

Another danger of such an approach of using military strikes to promote a political solution is that it will be very difficult to get the balance right between the threat of continuing and escalating military action against the regime and shifting the balance of power just enough to create incentives on both sides to negotiate.

This is not to say that reforms are not already being made which are beginning to change the balance of power, however modestly, against Executive dominance.

Republicans stuck together while Democrats balanced their ideological commitment to a progressive cause against their desire to prolong their power.

There are arguments for and against PR (if you mean proportional representation) Charles — the party of my own choice would have gained massively at the last General Election with PR, held the balance of power in fact probably with 4 million votes... but that does not mean that even I think you have to support PR «if you believe in democracy».

As I expressed to my Assembly colleagues this week, we have a responsibility to provide a check against the concentrated power of the executive branch, which seems to regularly disregard the balance of our three - branch system.

With the future of Skyrim left hanging in the balance, the people hold out hope for the prophesised Dragonborn to come — a hero born with the power of The Voice, and the only person that can take a stand against the dragons.

But while the election clearly shifted the balance of power on the board, the situation changed again after the Broad plan was leaked, with the school board tilting against charters.

(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.

Balanced against that, the lower powered diesels can be a little gruff, just like the XEs, and the interior, while well screwed together, doesn't look or feel especially classy.

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We were playing, my gang against his, and when he ran at me again, bully that he was, bigger than me, and catching me off balance, I felt the power go out of me as I shouted: «You'll never get where you're going.»

In 1802, this death ray could tip the balance of power in the Mediterranean, and Ethan must stop the pirates from using it against the American, English, and French fleets.

Many 401K plans allow you to borrow against your plan balance, but you will lose the earning power of those funds and have to pay yourself back over a 5 - year period with interest.

It's definitely a challenge to balance the protective powers of the government against meting out punishment for people's bad decisions.

With the future of Skyrim left hanging in the balance, the people hold out hope for the prophesised Dragonborn to come — a hero born with the power of The Voice, and the only person that can take a stand against the dragons.

Where this breaks down though is that each style is not balanced against the others; a good example of this would be the brawler who gets immunity to body shots once his power up has been activated, which seems extremely unfair in multiplayer matches.

The odds are often stacked against you, so balancing your powers and weapons with the other Guardians.

«I'm not against looking at renewable power, but let's balance it properly so it doesn't kill off our industry,» he said.

The few relatively minor problems that wind farms cause should be balanced against the huge problems that will arise if we do not replace fossil fuel use with renewable energy such as wind power.

Ultimately, all these factors have to balanced against the impact of generating the same amount of power from other sources.

Although another hung parliament is a long shot because the House's non-proportional electoral system is heavily biased against non-major-party candidates, the Greens have a good chance of maintaining the balance of power in the Senate, providing a check on whichever major party forms government.

This article was published in the April 2018 issue of the ABA Journal with the title, «The Balance of Power: 2018 Law Day theme of separation of powers highlights important bulwark against tyranny.»

The case presented an opportunity for the Court, as the Advocate General had put it, «to balance the functional benefits and independence of agencies against the possibility of them becoming «uncontrollable centres of arbitrary power»» (para 19).

For if the idea becomes popular that the Amendment is an all - purpose shield for journalists, warding off libel suits, deposi - tions, and searches as well as censorship, then it must become a weaker shield [bold mine], because it will seem obvious that so broad a power in the press must be balanced against other private and social interests in the community.

However, the EU views the whole package as a mutually reinforcing, carefully crafted framework that balances the powers of the State against the rights and freedoms of the individual.