"But just as powers are extended so must safeguards be — and this must be the absolute governing principle, I think — from the Labour party point of view, from any point of view… The safeguards have to be more robust, more transparent than they were before".
Released for public comment in May 2003, it was criticized for falling short of democratic reform, as it banned opposition political parties and allowed the king to retain absolute governing powers.
"The aesthetics of modernism, which we artists took as an absolute religion governing the present and indeed all of the future, now strikes me as I reassess it, as merely having been a style.
He was a rationalist, that is to say, a man who believed that architecture should be subject to laws as strict, logical and absolute as those governing science.
To Chinese leaders, "governing" means absolute control.
Brazil's Institutional Security Cabinet, which oversees the nation's intelligence activities, contended in a statement on Monday that the spying operations, involving relatively basic surveillance about a decade ago of diplomats and diplomatic properties in Brazil, were "in absolute compliance" with legislation governing such practices.
The thermodynamic theory governing the absolute maximum efficiency of energy conversion by thermoelectric devices that operate as part of the heat recycle in regenerative burners is examined.
Henceforth Europe would be divided into smaller states, each claiming sovereign power in its own territory, each supported by a professional army and governed by a prince who aspired to absolute rule – a recipe, perhaps, for chronic interstate warfare.
A senior member of the Saudi royal family has called for a coup to replace King Salman as the country's leader, in an unprecedented call for a change to the absolute monarchy that governs the Gulf state.
In the positive state, the mind stops looking for causes of phenomena, and limits itself strictly to laws governing them; likewise, absolute notions are replaced by relative ones.
If a good number of MPs from the new president's party win seats she can count on an absolute majority, which would make governing a lot easier for her.
