Sentences with phrase «not usurp»

Even the Committee could not usurp the final responsibility which Indigenous representatives had in deciding whether their people could live with the amendments.

However, the media can not usurp the function of the jury and deviate from objective and unbiased reporting.

The corporate opportunity doctrine stands for the legal principle that directors, officers, and majority shareholders may not usurp a beneficial business opportunity without first presenting it to the corporation.

You will usually agree to certain insurance terms with the company, which may or may not usurp coverage with your own insurance company.

Parenting coordination does not usurp the role of the courts, no alternative dispute resolution process can.

While lawyers must learn to use multimedia tools in making their cases, these tools should not usurp advocacy, he said.

Common Core advocates continue to insist that Common Core does not usurp local control of curriculum, but in practice high - stakes tests keyed to the Common Core standards ensure that curriculum will follow.

In its 5 - to - 4 decision, the court ruled that the state legislature did not usurp the authority of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (bese) when it required that all schools present a «balanced treatment» of creationism and evolution.

Those who are scared stiff should rest assured that whereas the economic «think tank» may be domiciled within the Presidency, its members will not usurp the job of the Federal Executive Council or any other agency with constitutional responsibility to manage the economy.

«This local law does not usurp or diminish any power of the planning commission, or the mayor for that matter,» Joy said.

The court also held that the EFCC could not usurp the oversight functions vested in state House of Assembly under Sections 128 and 129 of the 1999 Constitution to initiate a probe or criminal proceedings against a state official.

The doula does not usurp the father's or partner's role but enhances it by providing support and guidance in how to assist the birthing person.

If she is properly submissive, she will not usurp anything, or make him feel threatened by her abilities, and if he is looking at things right, he won't feel threatened.

For the classic faiths, however, history dare not usurp the authority of God's given word.

We can not usurp another person's responsibility for self - direction.

In doing so, she does not usurp authority or teach falsely.

Confrontation can not and must not usurp the working of the Holy Spirit grounded in justice and love.

There is everything to commend in the attitude of humility, or thanksgiving, or petition, or intercession before God, so long as the person with the attitude is not usurping prerogatives either of God himself or of the whole congregation of Christians.

However, in recent decades, religions are increasingly committed to respecting, and even promoting, local and regional identities by moving away from an expansionist spirit, and to facilitating self - determination and self - expression so that global thrust doesn't usurp local gifts and resources.

But once again we are bound to ask whether the historian's art is not usurping the place of the primitive kerygma.

Teachers also work around the time limits by rearranging their schedule to allow for 15 - minute conferences, or by making sure that the time blocked off for student - led conferences isn't usurped by other issues.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D This was my first experience with Ocarina and, while it doesn't usurp Wind Waker as my favorite Zelda title, I can certainly see why it's held in such high regard by so many LoZ fans.

Being firmly positioned in Generation X it's something we're loathe to use: fun as it is for millennials, we can't help feeling that Snapchat's dog face is Shapchat's and Samsung can't usurp that with its own additions.

Right now, the first security camera with Apple HomeKit support is great if you want an easy way to see what's going on live back home, but it hasn't usurped Nest Cam's ability to package complex features in an easy - to - use way.

Not exact matches

«The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) doesn't like their power being usurped by Congress and its rules regarding crowdfunding,» DJ Paul, the vice chairman of CIFRA told Forbes yesterday.

In many ways, the publicity about the «tell - all» book — not to mention last summer's scandal in which former HubSpot executives allegedly attempted to obtain a predraft copy — has usurped the tale told in the book itself, of Lyons» career reinvention.

British Columbia's demand for oil spill safety enhancements, by contrast, are capable of being designed so as not to usurp the federal government's authority over the approval of interprovincial pipelines.

Those who think Congress can easily reclaim war powers that presidents have usurped since then don't see how powerful Polk's method generally proves in a democracy.

The only question is whether a particular society has enough of the faithful to care for its poor so as not to have the charitable vocation usurped by the state, at which point it is no longer a Christian society.

But Silverman said this time of year is for all people, not just Christians: «Christianity thinks it owns this whole season, but this season, it belongs to everybody, and Christianity is not the first, nor the 10th religion to try and usurp the winter solstice for their own.»

In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these powers by tacitly redefining what the human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.

The universal principle of 1 Timothy 2:11 - 15 is not to excludewomen (like Priscilla) from teaching accurately, but to exclude false teachers who usurp authority.

God's control is not to impose or dictate or usurp or destroy.

Priscilla instructed a gifted leader in the very city — Ephesus — where Paul asks women not to usurp authority over men.

Or maybe it's because they see the atheists winning every argument and are livid with jealousy and seek to usurp our arguments, yet they clearly have not thought things through, as you can see.

Friends are not co-opting, coersing, and usurping of other's voice or of their own personal power.

they built a jewish country after annihilating some people in their homes, usurping their land with that state of mind, making culprits out of them, didn't they?

God will not overcome our limitations or usurp our freedom because God relates to us as we actually are — and that is something only we can decide.

Such an attraction is not a controlling or usurping of our own free determination of how that relationship will actually turn out.

In fact as you judge and condemn others you usurp Jesus who did not even come to condemn and judge others, He came to save them.

The incredible truth of the gospel is that there is a king who can not be killed or usurped; and who offers the one thing that George RR Martin's fantasy denies us: salvation.

The place of praying should not be a usurped place that is being taken by force.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

those of you who seek to make legislate your idiotic theistic morals, usurping their freedom, liberty, rights and equality of those who do not believe as you do — deserve no rights, liberties, freedom or equality.

Not only, then, had the Donatists» conception usurped Christ's unique mediation, but it also undermined the prayerful efficacy of Christ's ecclesial Body.

This much overlooked encyclical affirmed that the Nazi leader was perfidious, untrustworthy, dangerous and determined to take the place of God, not least by usurping parental rights.

God has spoken on this subject and His word instructs that the woman is not to teach nor usurp authority over the man.

The command that women are not to teach or usurp authority over the man was given by God to the Apostle Paul for the church during the church age so I don't understand your reference to the 10 commandments and the dispensation of the Law.

It is not an attempt to usurp the place of our ordinary ways of discovering, and so it does not compete nor conflict with reason or science.

It plainly says a woman is not to teach or usurp authority over the man.