Sentence examples for absolute legislative from inspiring English sources

Ms. Lipstadt is right that an absolute legislative ban on abortion under any and all circumstances, even in situations where the pregnancy threatens the mother's life, would be unacceptable to observant Jews.

Legal scholars have backed the constitutionality of the Glaciers Act but mining association members have vowed to fight any implementation and contend that provinces have absolute legislative authority over natural resources.

The creation of the Division of Community Education was one of the more imaginative initiatives of the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico as it came into absolute legislative and executive power following the 1948 general elections.

On 12 August, he revoked the interim declaration issued by the Scaf in June and transferred the powers the generals had assumed to the presidency, including absolute legislative authority.

So, whereas Hobbes argues that the sovereign is always vested with nearly absolute legislative authority, Spinoza claims that "since the right of a commonwealth is determined by the collective power of a people, the greater the number of subjects who are given cause by a commonwealth to join in conspiracy against it, the more must its power and right be diminished" (TP 3/9).

He has absolute executive, legislative, and judicial powers within the city.

They must be ratified by an absolute majority of the legislative assembly.

The Social Democratic Party (SPD) won nearly 50% of the vote and an absolute majority of the legislative seats in Hamburg, a port city with the status of a state.

Under this hyper-centralized new presidential system, Erdogan now has all the levers of political power at his disposal: absolute control over the legislative body, the judiciary and, of course, the executive office.

The District Court granted summary judgment to the individual defendants, finding that they had absolute immunity for their legislative acts and that the ordinances and resolutions adopted by the council did not constitute an official policy of harassment, as alleged by petitioners.

Domestic political calculations play a role in that the government needs to appease about 10 socialists (who are anti-American) until it can pass its budget, and then must focus on winning an absolute majority in the next legislative elections in July.