Sentences with phrase «on arbitrary power»

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.

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That said, atheists are genuinely concerned about their personal well - being when masses of disillusioned religious people hold the power to shift climate, start wars, and intrude on everyday activities in the name of an arbitrary * deity.

But if, on the other hand, we refuse to regard human socialization as anything more than a chance arrangement, a modus vivendi lacking all power of internal growth, then (excepting, at the most, a few elementary rules safeguarding the living - space of the individual) we find the whole structure of politico - economico - social relations reduced to an arbitrary system of conventional and temporary expedients.

As Montesquieu said a despotic society will have despotic customs — the arbitrary use of power, dependence of inferiors on superiors, slavery — that will produce a person primarily motivated by fear, just the right kind of subject for a despotic polity.

Over time, though, it began to seem like an arbitrary limitation on God's power to confine it to the realm of the living.

Based on observation of the behaviour of the government I'd say they've already made up their minds on that one: the Labour party is convinced that in order to stay in power it needs to be seen to be tough on crime, which usually translates into advocating random outbursts of arbitrary state power.

Politics in Spires, together with OurKingdom, IPPR and the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, are hosting the Great Charter Convention — an open, public debate on where arbitrary power lies in the UK today and how we should contest and contain it.

Rather than concentrating on improving the current system and insuring the timely designations and re-authorizations of state certified MWBE companies and their entry into the universe of state contracting, the law increases the arbitrary power of the director of the program while complicating the reporting systems required of contractors.

Today Mr Reid told the cabinet he was «mindful of the need for balancing measures to reassure the public when introducing moves that could be perceived as an increase in arbitrary power», and of the need to secure cross-party consensus on any changes.

The Great Charter Convention — an open, public debate on where arbitrary power lies in the UK today and how we should contest and contain it.

And so even though they give the President that power, again they put a check on it so that it's not done with arbitrary discretion» Mr. Mahama explained.

Two key factors appear to have persuaded the NLRB on the jurisdictional question: (1) the Texas Commissioner of Education's ability to reconstitute the governing board of a charter school, including the power to make appointments to the board upon reconstitution; and (2) the power of reconstitution is unreviewable unless arbitrary or clearly erroneous.

What is surprising us that so few people realize that setting up a single national authority to impose on the whole nation a single decision on every one of the thousands of separate judgment calls involved here is an arbitrary exercise of brute power that will generate all kinds of bad results, and no good ones.

The symbolism of standing guard to prevent senseless damage to books is not lost on those of us who are reminded almost daily that our right to read is being threatened, either intentionally or not, by an abundance of entertaining electronic media, funding cuts to libraries and schools, even moronic, extremist book banning in our public education institutions by those who wield arbitrary power over curricula.

Centering on the problems as well as the possibilities of memory and forgetting, the piece addresses the arbitrary distinctions that can be ascribed to power and possession.

Arbitrary increases in SCC values artificially boost the claimed benefits for emissions reductions in agency cost - benefit analyses on everything from power plant regulations to rules on kitchen appliances.

That materials come into radiative balance with the power spectra impinging on them (APL at http://CoSy.com) is not disputed — tho the computations for arbitrary spectra for even this most computation are astoundingly poorly taught or widely groked.

Achieving the equally arbitrary 120 kWh / m2 / yr has more direct environmental benefits than the heating target, but may best (i.e., with least cost and environmental damage) be achieved using some on - site or renewable off - site power generation.

Thomas J. Farrell, an attorney who assisted the ACLU on the matter, added that «the police practice of detaining and charging people for impolite behavior gives the police arbitrary power to harass citizens they do not like.

In one sense, the Court's autonomy concern is based on a juristic fiction of a perfect legal system that contains no gaps or lacunae in the protective safety - net it offers to its subjects, and the glorified references to the principle of mutual trust and the EU's foundational values sound somewhat empty in light of arbitral practice and in light of the fact that arbitrary exercises of public power continue to take place within the internal market, with EU law having little to offer to the affected investors.

The author provides a detailed discussion on arbitrary detention under the Charter and includes case law on traffic regulation vehicle stops, police power to affect a traffic stop, random vehicle stops and vehicle stops to investigate other offences.

The exercise of arbitrary government police power to permanently shut down a successful closely - held business on a holiday weekend.

Speaking generally, it may be true (as Laws J said in a passage also quoted by Lord Bingham from R v Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ex p First City Trading [1997] 1 CMLR 250, 278 - 279) that «Wednesbury and European review are two different models — one looser, one tighter — of the same juridical concept, which is the imposition of compulsory standards on decision - makers so as to secure the repudiation of arbitrary power».

In public regulation of this sort there is no such thing as absolute and untrammelled «discretion», that is that action can be taken on any ground or for any reason that can be suggested to the mind of the administrator; no legislative Act can, without express language, be taken to contemplate an unlimited arbitrary power exercisable for any purpose, however capricious or irrelevant, regardless of the nature or purpose of the statute.