Sentences with phrase «former ruling power»

The Banished are led by the Brute warlord Atriox and seek to regain the former ruling power of the old covenant.

Not exact matches

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

News of her firing comes on the same day that Zimbabwe's 93 year - old Robert Mugabe, the last of the generation of African leaders to take over from colonial rule, has had his hold on power broken by army units loyal to his former bodyguard Emmerson Mnangagwa.

The very existence of power relations, the inequality of the strong and the weak, the mastery of the former over the latter, the differentiation between ruler and ruled was attributed by nineteenth century liberals to autocratic government and is attributed by contemporary Marxists to the class structure of society.

Prosecuted by the armed proletariat who represent the masses of mankind, the communist revolution wrests the power of the state from the ruling elite and deploys that power not to oppress the masses (as was the case in former revolutions) but to abolish the ruling class as such.

But SERAP in a statement today by its deputy director Timothy Adewale said, «Rather than using their executive and legislative powers to promote good governance and abolish laws granting double emoluments and large severance benefits to former governors, the Abia State government is denigrating the judiciary and displaying contempt for the rule of law.»

The Supreme Court, in a case last year involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, ruled that corruption convictions could only be based on performance of an «official act» that represented a formal exercise of government power — not just a phone call or a meeting with a lobbyist.

Former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa will now take power in Zimbabwe, the ruling ZANU PF Party said in a statement.

One of Angola's main opposition parties plans to contest the results of last week's general election, alleging unfair conduct during the vote that kept the ruling party of former president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos in power.

Zimbabwe's former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa has just returned to the country to take power after Robert Mugabe's resignation brought a sudden end to 37 years of authoritarian rule.

I am shouting today because I love this party we all laboured to bring into existence, we can not be repeating the same mistakes that the former ruling party made, lost members and eventually lost power.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky has scored a victory in his long - running battle against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, thanks to a federal appeals court that reversed a lower court ruling on the commission's responsibility to involve and notify the public before exempting the Hudson Valley nuclear power plant from health and safety requirements.

The founder and leader of the Glorious Word and Power Ministry International, Reverend Isaac Owusu - Bempah has admitted that former President John Dramani Mahama was appointed by God in 2012 to rule the country.

Speaking on the chances of the former ruling PDP returning to power in 2019 and the emergence of Third Force, Geroge said Nigerians were already fed up with the current government led by the APC.

It therefore appealed to Nigerians to return the former ruling party to power in 2019, saying it had learnt from its past mistakes.

The former VP was asked by an audience identified as Ikechi, to explain his rationale for returning to the PDP even after the opposition party had been ruled out of Nigeria's power equation forever, by the minister for Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The proposal gives the latter group more power to do what they want, whereas the former hopes that the new rules will ease authorization procedures.

Before the speech, Bob Perciasepe, a former EPA official who is now president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, said it would be beneficial if the president used his address to correct inaccuracies about EPA's carbon rules for power plants.

Together, they must bring down a new threat, Lord Shen (voiced by Gary Oldman), the former heir to the ruling Peacock Emperors of China, who was banished from the kingdom after trying to harness the power of gunpowder.

The artist created a 20 - ton replica of the former HSBC Bank in Shanghai, built in 1923 by the British architecture firm Palmer & Turner, contemplating the troubling history this building has lived through while questioning the power of ruling institutions.

As reflected in comments by former commissioners in the Grid Reliability and Resiliency Pricing rule, changes to wholesale power market pricing that provide additional compensation to certain classes of generators will impact wholesale markets.

«Former Vice President Al Gore should have used this month's «24 Hours of Reality» internet broadcast to encourage the Trump administration to withdraw all carbon - dioxide emission rules on future power stations.

Jeff Holmstead has used his credentials as a former EPA Air and Radiation assistant administrator to cast doubt over the legality and efficacy of new rules to reduce carbon emissions at US power plants, including coal plants operated by Holmstead's clients.

Since I find that the power conferred under the new rule is the same as the old rule, I conclude that the principles defined under the former rule must be considered.

[29] I conclude that the power to sever issues is the same in substance between the former rule and the current rule.

So an interesting problem that maybe our judicial (and former judicial) members can enlighten us on is — why judges almost NEVER use the powers that they have long possessed to sanction lawyers under Rule 11 — or more modestly, simply require them to bear the costs for unjustified litigation costs that they have imposed on others with arguments that are not substantially justified under 28 U.S.C. 1927?