Sentences with phrase «in exercise of the powers»

(Using the lowercase «c» with reference to «christianity» is a spiritual discipline for me as a member of a religious tradition so arrogant and abusive in its exercise of power over women, lesbians and gays, indigenous people, Jews, Muslims and members of nonchristian religions and cultures.)

But a republic will have republican customs — public participation in the exercise of power, the political equality of the citizens, a wide distribution of small and medium property with few very rich or very poor — customs that will lead to a public spiritedness, a willingness of the citizen to sacrifice his own interests for the common good, that is, to a citizen motivated by republican virtue.

This is not a story of steady progress towards a determined goal: it remained uncertain how and even whether the people's wish to share in the exercise of power could be given stable institutional form.

Within the corridors of the Flagstaff House, younger Ministers of State may call any of their colleagues a «Senior Minister» in deference to his or her age but that is different from an official communication by the President to Parliament in exercise of his powers pursuant to articles 58 and 256 of the Constitution requesting that a person advanced in age be vetted for approval by Parliament to be appointed as «Senior Minister».

Conservative leader David Cameron has also stated that «the time has come to look at those [prerogative] powers exercised by ministers.Giving parliament a greater role in the exercise of these powers would be an important and tangible way of making government more accountable».

The Bank of Ghana in the exercise of its powers grants licences to persons desiring to conduct the business of banking including microfinance and money lending.

Responding to questions on currents efforts by the National Assembly to alter the timetable for the 2019 general elections, Prof. Yakubu maintained that the Commission had, in the first place, announced the timetable in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the existing laws as contained in the Electoral Act (2010 as amended) and the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

«The ministry, in exercise of its power under the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act, 2007, granted and issued to AICO Mining Lease No. 2541 for the renewable period of 25 years effective from 1st of February, 2008 and to expire on 31st of January, 2033.

«From the foregoing, it is submitted that the interference in the exercise of the powers of INEC to appoint dates for holding the general elections in Nigeria is illegal as the provision of the Electoral Bill, 2018 is inconsistent with Sections 76, 116, 132 and 178 of the constitution.

«The national convention of the PDP, in the exercise of its powers under section 12.88 of the PDP constitution, dissolved the National Working Committee and appointed some of its members as caretakers Committee for the next ninety (90) days, to enable it pursue true reconciliation of its disputant members towards peaceful, amicable and political settlement of the disputes leading to the cases in court.

«In exercise of the power conferred on the President under article 5 of the Constitution, this Instrument is made this 30th day of April, 2018.

Worse, they risk becoming arachons, hostile to contestation and comfortable in the exercise of power.»

From the start, their relationship is bound up in the exercise of power.

Section 18 b (1) interference and obstruction of an officer in the exercise of the powers given under the Animal Protection Act

As the Court held in paragraph 70 of its ruling of 14 June 2016: «Participation by the Parliament in the legislative process is the reflection, at Union level, of a fundamental democratic principle that the people should participate in the exercise of power through the intermediary of a representative assembly.»

«[t] hat rule is an expression of the democratic principles on which the European Union is founded» as well as «the reflection, at EU level, of the fundamental democratic principle that the people [sic] should participate in the exercise of power through the intermediary of a representative assembly» (para. 81).

A plain reading of these provisions indicates that Parliament conferred broad discretion upon BDC in the exercise of its powers under the BDC Act.

Second, subsections 14 (1)(a) and 22 (b) of the BDC Act provide BDC with the power to «make loans and investments» and «determine and charge interest and any other form of compensation for services [it] provides in the exercise of its powers under this Act».

62 (1) No person shall hinder, obstruct, molest or interfere with or attempt to hinder, obstruct, molest or interfere with an inspector in the exercise of a power or the performance of a duty under this Act or the regulations or in the execution of a warrant issued under this Act or the Provincial Offences Act with respect to a matter under this Act or the regulations.

In the exercise of that power, the secretary of state made the Accession (Immigration and Worker Registration) Regulations 2004 (SI 2004/1219)(the 2004 regulations).

The mere fact that the applicant was in a sector or department which participated in the exercise of power conferred by public law was not in itself decisive.

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 22 (3)(b) of the Medical Practitioners and Dentist Act, the Director of Medical Services declares the institutions named in the Schedule to be approved institutions for the purpose of this section.

The government is disregarding legitimate constraints in its exercise of power against the vulnerable.

(2) In the exercise of its powers under subsection (1), (1A) or (1C), a court shall have regard to the interests of, and shall make any order proper for the protection of, a bona fide purchaser or other person interested.

Notwithstanding any provision of this Act or any other law, a Judicial Registrar is not subject to the direction or control of any person or body in the exercise of a power delegated under subsection 26B (1).

Not exact matches

I learned the power of doing some type of physical exercise first thing in the morning when I was an athlete.

«We will examine whether platforms are exercising market power in commercial dealings to the detriment of consumers, media content creators and advertisers,» Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chairman Rod Sims said in a statement.

Generally, junior employees can get away with providing a couple of weeks, but longer periods may be required for employees who exercise considerable discretion or power in their jobs.

The Power of Nice describes an exercise from the authors» seminars, in which attendees are paired off, each playing either the «agent» or the «publisher» in working out a book deal.

He starts out with a clever definition of what bullying actually is: «Bullying is what happens when an individual with power exercises that power against people who don't fit in.

Well, those same people need to exercise a little more brain power here, because the notion that every HR department is old - fashioned, full of red tape and works in a bubble is a misguided stereotype.

After exercising override power, a JPMorgan employee sent a report in May 2006 to a ratings agency that showed only 5.3 percent of the mortgages were defective.

But hopefully this exercise illustrates the power of getting in as early as possible and with as much as you can afford.

Provided, however, that an incentive stock option held by a participant who owns more than 10 % of the total combined voting power of all classes of our stock, or of certain of our parent or subsidiary corporations, may not have a term in excess of five years and must have an exercise price of at least 110 % of the fair market value of our common stock on the grant date.

Returning to Shell Jackpine, while Canadians might be able to guess which policy factors were considered, they have no way of knowing how they were considered in light of the government's obligations pursuant to section 4 to ensure that projects «are considered in a careful and precautionary manner» and that the government exercises its powers «in a manner that protects the environment and human health and applies the precautionary principles.»

Sure the proposed federal action plan employs strong language to suggest that in the absence of effective habitat protection by Alberta, the federal government may exercise its SARA powers to apply the federal legislation onto provincial lands.

The credit (or blame) for all of this change will rest on the shoulders of Michael Ferro, the tech investor with a longstanding side interest in newspapers who shocked the Chicago media elite when he bought a 16.6 % stake in the company and, as I reported, quickly began to exercise the power his attendant position (despite the title of non-executive chairman) gave him.

In practice, the consumer does not seem to be self - aware and exercises none of her / his power.

Forward guidance is a tool used by a central bank to exercise its power in monetary policy in order to influence, with their own forecasts, market expectations of future levels of interest rates.

«This legislation exercises provincial powers to restrict the use of pill presses and other pharmaceutical equipment to reduce the supply of illegally manufactured and distributed fentanyl that is a major factor in the overdose crisis,» said Farnworth.

A finding that a measure such as the one adopted in this case relates in pith and substance to a provincial head of power could encourage municipalities to systematically exercise the federal power to choose where to locate radiocommunication infrastructure while alleging local interests in support of their doing so.

Within the classical liberal tradition, there is desire for a political system to respect the right to live free from physical force, for a government of limited function in the protection of rights, and for powers to be exercised in accordance with laws objective and universal.

Naming / defining is an exercise of power over others, so perhaps naming other persons made in the Divine image, with the potential to become godlike, by labeling them «believers» or «unbelievers» is a failure to see all people as God sees them, children of the one true God.

(2) It is difficult to conceive, as we have seen above, of the mechanisms by which God could exercise power in this way.

According to Judge Khatun Sapnara, the girl had been placed foster carers in March on an emergency basis after police exercised powers of protection.

But it is an exercise of «authoritarian» power to compel by force of law and under pain of imprisonment that all citizens support and finance government programs that in some manner, efficiently or otherwise, benefit the poor.

As Reay Tannahill points out, this «was the exercise of power without responsibility — the same type of power women exercised in churches.

Kant's moral argument for God demands a deity who exercises power in the traditional manner, but his principal moral theory requires that he become a process theist on the question of divine power.

Third, the exercise of political power should be placed in the service of genuine goods, such as order, justice, liberty, and community.

My article made note of old claims about the divine right of kings, not because I imagine such claims were true even in their own time, but because they at least offered a theory about why the state is justified in exercising power over life and death.