Sentences with phrase «unfettered power»

As the USA experience has shown, that virtually unfettered power of the Crown, leveraged with mandatory minimum sentences, in many situations renders both the right to a trial and the role of the judiciary in sentencing proceedings largely irrelevant.

«The DOE's position in these talks has been that principals» judgment is always right and that they should be able to wield unfettered power over their employees,» Mulgrew said.

That view threatens the lives of people with disabilities and is deeply offensive to fundamental constitutional values and to legal traditions which recognize that parents do not enjoy unfettered power with respect to the lives of their children.

Mind you, that still leaves Mr Murphy with the problem that only 20 % of all Scots want to see his party back in unfettered power, hardly a powerful springboard from which to try and save his fellow MPs» seats.

In some polls, as many as half of voters want to deny unfettered power to any single party.

If I am president, and leave the Court without a working minimum to function (see Panda's answer), then I can operate without that branch of government, but it's not like I get unfettered power to do as I wish, even with a cooperative Congress.

«Instead of concerning ourselves with the absence of the President, we should ensure that the acting President is given unfettered powers to perform his functions.

One judge, however, said Blaine mentioned that Berger's preference would be the «Virginia plan,» which would allow the General Assembly unfettered power to appoint judges to the bench.

Sovereign power does not mean unfettered power; just ask King John or King George III.

Recently, the Association of Chief Police Officers proposed that the government consider giving the police unfettered powers to offer anonymity to potential witnesses, without the intervention of the court.

That mystery of God, moreover, is designed to exhibit the fiercer, unfettered power of God.

Mulgrew said the safeguard was necessary to prevent principals from wielding «unfettered power over their employees» in light of several recent alleged attempts at unfair dismissal.

He acknowledged that De Zen dominated the company through a management structure that gave him «unfettered power to transact significant contracts on behalf of the corporation.»

as to the President's unfettered power to fire anyone... Joe Digenova, former US Attorney,» Trump quoted him as saying on the show, misspelling the lawyer's name.

He said Nigerians should instead concentrate on ensuring that the acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, had unfettered powers to carry out his duties.

They must go to their chain of command; commanders, who often have no legal training and are loath to have their unit «tarnished» by an investigation, are likely to sweep charges under the rug and have, in Burke's words, «unfettered power to do whatever they want.»

(b) Parliament is sovereign and has unfettered power to enact a British Bill of Rights.