Sentences with phrase «exercise arbitrary authority»

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Though the term arose when the nations were monarchies, and it had a more realistic symbolism then than now, it connotes power exercised, not in arbitrary dictatorial authority, but in loving concern.

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.

The HIA brief charges that the DEA's «Final Rule» should be invalidated because the agency is exercising arbitrary and capricious authority by attempting to outlaw hemp seed and oil without holding formal hearings on the issue or finding any potential for abuse.

As explained by the ECJ in its previous case - law (Case C ‑ 419 / 14, WebMindLicenses), the requirement that any limitation on the exercise of that right must be provided for by law implies that the legal basis which permits any interference with personal rights and liberties must be sufficiently clear and precise, affording legal protection against any arbitrary interferences by public authorities.