Sentence examples for a weak executive from inspiring English sources

Carter is a weak executive and a maladroit politician.

But he was widely viewed as a weak executive whose initiatives were subject to veto by Mr. Putin.

Both of these wishes pointed towards a constitutional system with a weak executive, which is what Italy got.

And during a recent trip to Iowa, when asked to contrast their records as governor, Ms. Palin declined, noting that Texas has a weak executive office.

A President enabled by a spineless and supine Congress that fails to exercise its oversight powers isn't a weak executive at all: he is a potential despot.

Grévy served in the Constituent Assembly of 1848 where, fearing the rise of Louis-Napoléon (later Emperor Napoleon III), he advocated a weak executive, a viewpoint he held throughout his career.

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He added: "This is a very dark day for Carmarthenshire, a dark day for democracy in Carmarthenshire, and is an example of what happens when you have a very weak executive and a council controlled by powerful unelected officers".

But Mr. Sanford points out that South Carolina has a strong legislature and a very weak executive, and the $700 million represents the kind of leverage a governor here can rarely wield.

Like Hooker, he assumes a conservative social hierarchy with a relatively weak executive power and defends the propertied classes both against a ruler by divine right and against radicals.

In other words, it will seek to reshape Europe as a larger version of its own federal system, which has a relatively weak executive constrained by strict rules and a strong parliament and judiciary.