Sentences with phrase «unchecked powers of»

The new category of crime vaguely defined (and whimsically prosecuted) as the violation of civil rights removed the bar against double jeopardy; and the unchecked power of administrative commissions and civil suits reversed the presumption of innocence.

If you're seriously concerned about online user privacy and the unchecked power of tech companies, you need to make your voice heard at the level of policymakers, rather than preaching on social media or staging a boycott.

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King would have viewed this legislation as one of the decrepit consequences of unchecked late capitalism: a wealthy, charlatan president who leverages anti-black racism and fear in order to exploit the power of the presidency for personal gain.

In the beginning of the film, superheroes are forced to retire by the government when public outrage over the heroes» unchecked power reaches new heights.

Unchecked corporate cash in the form of political donations and lobbying expenditures has the power to exert undue influence over public policy and regulatory systems and threaten our democracy.

Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.

The names of Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler bring to mind terrors created by unchecked worldly power.

Lobbies wax and wane in proportion to the unchecked powers the government — particularly through the staff - level writers and enforcers of rules — claims for itself.

When a society or a nation tries to direct its course on the basis of aggressive self - interest, denial of the rights and liberties of others, economic greed, lust for power, race prejudice, vindictiveness, and deception, situations are created which if unchecked lead to war.

How about this: Senator Kennedy being a good state senator and not some kind of power - hungry type with unchecked ambition.

Astorino asked the question to the reader: «Do you think it is a good idea to give the Department of Housing and Urban Development unchecked power to put an apartment building in your neighbourhood?»

«I will not allow this abuse of power to go unchecked,» she wrote, vowing in the meeting to «keep fighting.»

No amount of wielding of unchecked executive power and dismissal of vital select committee findings can wish away the progress that NOTA UK and other groups campaigning for electoral reform have made — so we crack on.

Simply, the unchecked expansion of government power, whether in Albany or Washington is a danger to our democracy.»

The criminal charges facing Alain Kaloyeros, considered a rain maker by governors stretching back to George Pataki, was a sign of the nano tech chief's unchecked power.

«It's about an arrogance of power where they have unchecked power in the State of Connecticut, where Democrats control every facet of our government.

«How does any entity, private of not, have the unchecked access to and negotiating power over, any taxable property without any type of oversight by any governing body of individuals chosen by the electorate?»

China will steer local governments away from the pursuit of economic growth at all costs and beef up their powers to punish polluters as part of a campaign to reverse the damage done by three decades of unchecked expansion.

The radio telescope's first major task will be to investigate the Sun to provide earlier warnings of solar storms that, if left unchecked, could fry satellites and power grids across the globe.

Where plenty of more serious - minded modern films would try to build a relevant message into this plot about the dangers of unchecked corporate power, lax regulations, or genetic experiments, Rampage seems to consciously make the antagonists as shrill and unrealistic as possible, to avoid any unfortunate associations with reality.

Ricky Church continues his countdown to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice with Superman: Red Son... One of the reasons Batman and Superman are at odds in their upcoming movie are because of the Dark Knight's fear that, if unchecked, Superman will one day use his power to conquer the planet.

Whether in a relationship, a job, or in matters of politics and America, power should never go unchecked.

The whole physiognomy of capitalism has changed, with finance capital requiring a parallel accumulation of political power, with financiers married to an unchecked political oligarchy spawning highly parasitic fanancialized forms of capitalism such as asset - stripping.

Or defend the reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, a spying bill that violates the Fourth Amendment and gives vast, unchecked surveillance authority to the government, and extends the powers of the National Security Agency to conduct surveillance of Americans» international emails and phone calls.

The measure, which calls for the mayor to appoint a new school board, contains provisions designed to allay fears that the voices of parents might be lost or that the mayor would exercise unchecked power.

Brookings Institution scholar Diane Ravitch and United Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, both of whom supported mayoral control, wrote recently in the New York Times that Bloomberg's powers are «unchecked» and the city's education department operates in secrecy, denying «the right of the public to have a say in important decisions.»

A biting satire of a particular despot and a deeply humane allegory of the fragility of goodness and the contagion of unchecked power.

Speaking of the GSEs» exclusive use of FICO scores, VantageScore released a public statement that said, «Monopolies never benefit markets or consumers and they create the opportunity for pricing power unchecked by competition.»

We have built in a series of carefully designed controls so no individual participant can wield unchecked power over another.

Ai Weiwei «s visual body of work is mainly intended to critique human rights violations, abuse of power and unchecked state control.

The unrestricted consolidation of filthy lucre and political / military power, the unbridled expansion of economic globalization, the unrestrained per - capita overconsumption of limited resources and the unchecked human overpopulation on the relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home God blesses us to inhabit, could soon become unsustainable.

He believes there is something profoundly wrong with our system — the unchecked accumulation of wealth and power into the hands of a very small group of corporate business interests has contributed to the wholesale corruption of our political system.

But the upside is three-fold: (i) your tax reduction or dividend check will offset much, perhaps more than 100 %, of those price increases; (ii) you'll be able to minimize your tax bite by cutting down on fuel usage (e.g., shortening those country drives, buying locally - grown produce, purchasing «green power» from wind and solar cells); and (iii) Americans» combined behavior changes in response to the carbon tax will go a long way toward protecting the climate and averting the cataclysmic consequences of unchecked global warming.

some words of wisdom from Dr James Hansen Feb 2014 — regarding Nuclear power and «merchants of doubt» — eg «Climate scientists have long warned of potential catastrophic effects of unchecked fossil fuel use.»

Mr. McIntyre's unchecked, extraordinary power is the real story of «Climategate».

Democrats on the Committee did their jobs by asking tough questions about important issues: civil rights, privacy, environmental protections, the danger of unchecked presidential power and others.

They write: «A regime that allows high government officials to exercise great power, totally unchecked, for periods of 30 to 40 years, is essentially a relic of pre-democratic times.»

These positions are extreme, and they are united by one thing: an embrace of unchecked federal government power.»

Even assuming this argument is correct, it does not address the concern that the Congress is exercising unchecked judicial power at the expense of individual liberties.

The almost wholly unchecked and sweeping powers we give to judges in the fashioning of sentences are terrifying and intolerable for a society that professes devotion to the rule of law.

Overall the IPB is a strange combination of very targeted and seemingly limited steps, along with sweeping data collection powers, broad unchecked legal authority and gag orders that will stifle oversight and legitimate objections from service providers.»

It is worse than business - as - usual: It explicitly authorizes warrantless searches of law - abiding Americans, us, and allows for the collection of communications entirely among innocent Americans who reference the wrong foreigner, and gives the attorney general unchecked power to decide when the government can use what it finds against us, to pick just three of its many troubling provisions.

The smartphone revolution was about putting a powerful computer and an internet connection in everyone's pocket; it was not about creating a new class of economic gatekeepers with the unchecked power to control and destroy markets with zero oversight and little true competition.

Many devices of this sort of size and power will burn through the battery unchecked in half a day.

In the «Power saving» area of the settings you'll find a «Protected apps» list where you can allow individual apps to run while the screen is off, and you'll find that all of your apps are unchecked by default.

If we push away or abandon our sense of connection with others — our acknowledgement, our sensitivity, and our love; there is no limit to the sadness, terror and pain that our unchecked power can produce.