Sentences with phrase «from police power»

The secret police are not restrained by law, and there is no appeal from police power.

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Just last year, the federal government was championing a law that would have granted police sweeping new powers to monitor Canadians» e-mail and demand customer information from Internet service providers.
Police have reportedly arrested six individuals in Tianjin for mining bitcoin with electricity from the power grid — without paying for it.
Now, Delrahim is set to assume the helm of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, which has broad powers to police competition and reviews major tech and telecom mergers — from AT&T's pending purchase of Time Warner to a potential, rumored tie - up of Sprint and T - Mobile.
The last act of decency that was in Walt's power was to renounce his infant daughter and play the monster he had become on a phone call he knew the police were overhearing, so as to exculpate his wife Skyler from her cooperation in his schemes.
It comes as the Prime Minister's announced new powers for police to seize terrorist suspects» passports and to prevent British people suspected of fighting abroad in places like Iraq and Syria from returning to the UK.
Where the situation becomes sinister is when one group attempts to police the activities of another, or where one Christian organization or leader uses their personal power or share of the market to prevent others, with whom they are not formally connected, from speaking freely and asking the hard questions.
Unlike many of college basketball's nouveau riche, those alphabet - soup and hyphenated leagues that are inhabited by institutions of higher learning previously sniffed out only by police dogs, the Big East from the git - go incorporated a bunch of traditional powers sitting there just panting to group - boogie.
In October 2005, two North African teenagers died of electrocution in one of the banlieues of Paris as they were running from the police through a dangerous power substation.
From May next year, the public will be able to elect a police and crime commissioner for their police force area, who will have the power to set the policing budget, determine the policing plan and hire and fire the chief constable.
In a letter sent to Cuomo on Monday, Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman asked for the power to independently investigate the killing of any unarmed civilian by a police officer in the state, effectively removing local district attorneys from the equation.
Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.
And it offers grist to both ideological conservatives and liberals.For conservatives and libertarians, the tragedy reveals the deleterious blowback of nanny state intervention.The social welfare and family court judge tilted to the missing wife's parents, and restricted Josh's visits from his two sons.We should expect Gingrich to run with this story, attacking the liberal nanny state; and how this liberal state's actions have negative unintended consequences.Liberals will also weigh in.The police, 911 distpatcher, and the criminal justice systemas a whole, all failed.The «hard power» of the police state actually made matters worse.As the ideological divide plays out, the tragedy does not end.The young mother / wife is still missing, and presumed dead.The sick Josh is no longer a person of interest.
I insist that it is unconstitutional for this Government to use any covert agent for operations against citizens to hide its Gargantuan political corruption like Nerquaye - Tetteh's golden handshake of GH 400,000 when it knows that the Constitution and the laws of Ghana proscribes it from using the executive powers of policing, intelligence and security entrusted to it by the Constitution except in compliance with the existing law.
In An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (Harper Press # 20) Richard Davenport - Hines shows the public hypocrisy of the establishment, the near criminal activity of some of the press, corruption amongst the police and high moral cant from the judiciary.
In 2003, when Daniel Wiese retired from the State Police at the age of 48, Governor Pataki made him Inspector General of the New York State Power Authority.
Police estimated that 1,000 campaigners from groups Power 2010, 38 Degrees and Unlock Democracy gathered at the Lib Dem meeting today urging MPs to fight for proportional representation (PR).
It is the movement of power from locally appointed and accountable chief constables to an organisation that is both a private company and a trade union with a closed shop: the Association of Chief Police Officers, which has grown to dominate the field of policing without the sanction of the House.
Former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, has told the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, that he «had no power» to enforce his retirement from the Police Force.
Ministers hope to find a compromise that will allow genuine curators to collect legitimate firearms while giving police and enforcement agencies the power to remove black - market guns from the streets.
This would be a huge expense for a body which, aside from transport and policing, has relatively little spending power.
«Yet umpteen new criminal offences, police powers and other broad laws from parliament have been matched by government targets.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman last year was appointed a special prosecutor to pursue cases in which civilians die in interactions with police, taking the power away from local district attorneys who may be too close with local law enforcement.
Liberty, which commissioned the poll from YouGov, fears that elected commissioners could pressure police to use their powers in ways which meets a political agenda, rather than serving the community as a whole.
This was clearly a scheme she designed to intimidate the aspiring candidates and frighten them with the police powers of the Executive from vindicating their rights before the Courts.
Mayor Giuliani launched an all - out offensive yesterday against Bill Bratton, warning he would «do everything» in his power to stop his former police commissioner from becoming mayor.
The former Minister for Power, Kwabena Donkor, had his home subjected to a thorough search by some personnel from the Criminal Investigations Department of the Police on Monday morning.
«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»
A «police and crime panel» of seven, drawn mainly from local councillors, will provide the sole check on the exercise of power and will, for the most part, only be armed with the underwhelming tools of recommendation and report.
The next time the police pick you or someone you know just like that from the streets, know that you gave them that power.
Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.
In the words of the IGP, the police derive its powers from the constitution and therefore must be obedient to law and order.
New York has also deployed military police, National Guard soldiers, state troopers, drone pilots and experts from the Port Authority and Power Authority to Puerto Rico, as well as four helicopters.
The governor says he will use his executive powers to remove 16 - and 17 - year olds from adult prisons, and appoint the attorney general for a one year term as a special prosecutor in police cases where a civilian is killed.
The central findings, from the watchdog's powers and the police response to phone hacking, to the possibility of a UK «first amendment» and the media's treatment of footballers» wives
A police officer in protective suit walks past a damaged house while searching for bodies in Minamisoma, about 18 km (11 miles) from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power station, Fukushima prefecture, April 11, 2011.
Even among many of the most elite enclaves of blackness today, power is uniquely vulnerable and fragile, and there are as of yet no suits of any cost that will stop black youth from the ravages of police brutality the world over.
He and the corrupt local chief of police (he uses his powers to extort sexual favors from pretty young women in exchange for the chance to flee the Nazis), then wander off into the desert.
The four boys pull a «Lost Boys» /» Underworld» - style drop from a cliff down to a beach party, a gross misuse of their powers (but nothing compared to what they do when chased by the police).
But the result is a film that, for all its emotional power, is strangely disengaged from the cultural and systemic forces that led to police brutality in 1967 and continue to do so today.
Everyone close to him — from the friendly police chief (Willem Dafoe) grateful for Odd's help but endlessly frustrated at his heroics to Odd's beautiful and understanding girlfriend Stormy (Addison Timlin)-- knows about Odd's powers and take them in stride.
The film's focus on first Willoughby's absolution for not solving Angela's case, then Jason's for repeatedly abusing his power as a police officer, increasingly pull attention away from the victim, so that a teenage girl's rape and murder eventually becomes the springboard for a pair of bad cops» redemption.
Ford also plans a hybrid F - 150 pickup truck, assembled upriver from Flat Rock at the historic River Rouge plant, plus hybrid - powered versions of its Explorer - based Police Interceptor Utility and Taurus - based Police Interceptor Sedan, Fields said.
According to the Michigan State Police, that was enough power to move the Police Interceptor Utility from 0 - 60 mph in 7.96 seconds and attain a top speed of 132 mph.
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But when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all - daring to challenge the Queen's fertility - enemies abound, from the fearsome fertility police who enforce the strict social hierarchy to the high priestesses jealously wedded to power.
It's a stretch to call Madame Joker a female empowerment fantasy — Ranko's power, after all, comes from being a beautiful, rich widow, not a surgeon, police officer, or mother — but it's fun to see a forty - something women get to enjoy traditionally male privileges.
In addition, how is this any different from John Groendyke sitting on the board of the Wildlife Commission, a state agency with police powers, and donating to the agency in large amounts, greatly exceeding the amount Ms Hamm has donated?
The 69 - year - old man rented the power boat from an agency at the Oceanside Harbor about 10:40 a.m., police said.
Sheriff Jim Clark Arresting Demonstrators, Selma, Alabama, October 7 (1963) would, from its title, seem to submit to the power of police authority by representing their dominance.
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