Sentences with phrase «government unlimited power»

«The Antiquities Act does not give the federal government unlimited power to lock up millions of acres of land and water, and it's time we ended this abusive practice,» he added.

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It promised an unheard - of degree of individual freedom, an unlimited opportunity to compete for material well - being, and an unprecedented limitation on the arbitrary powers of government to interfere with individual initiative.
To begin with, though we have had to give up Jefferson's moral confidence in a rationally enlightened humankind, we have good reason to share his other motive for separating government from religion, mainly, humankind's tragic experience with melding the state's unlimited power and religion's absolute truth.
In his illuminating new book Drugs Unlimited Mike Power sets out how market forces and the internet have combined to bypass laws and move way ahead of governments to build a hugely sophisticated, agile, international sub culture and marketplace.
The government agency spent years exploring the stone's potential as an unlimited power source — making the Captain pretty angry — until it was stolen by Loki who used it to open a portal unleashing alien hell on New York City.
a type of municipal bond backed by the full faith, credit, and taxing power of the issuer, specifically its ability to collect taxes; only entities that have the right to levy and collect taxes can issue general obligation bonds; certain governmental entities are subject to legal limits on the amount of taxes that they can impose, and their issues are called limited - tax general obligation bonds; unlimited - tax bonds are issued by government entities that are not subject to those limits
The government has unlimited resources, unlimited power, and little if any ethical constraints or accountability.
The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation.
It is quite another thing to hand it out with the daily rations of government power, unlimited as to any explicit legal purpose for which it may be exercised.
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