Sentence examples for act of executive from inspiring English sources

It was an act of executive fiat, imposed without even consulting Congress.

Despite great pressure, unmentioned by Bennett, to approve these verdicts, Lincoln pardoned or commuted the sentences of 265 defendants -- by far the largest act of executive clemency in American history.

The Bush administration's decision to deny California permission to regulate and reduce global warming emissions from cars and trucks is an indefensible act of executive arrogance that can only be explained as the product of ideological blindness and as a political payoff to the automobile industry.

That 17 year ban on federally-funded gun violence research was lifted by President Obama under an act of executive authority after the Sandy Hook massacre.

"That commutation of a sentence was Obama's first bold act of executive clemency," said P.S. Ruckman, a pardon expert at Rock Valley College in Rockford, Ill.

A lot of them have exhausted their legal remedies and their only hope of regaining their freedom is through the extraordinary act of executive clemency.

Over the past century, acts of executive clemency have dwindled, with President Obama on track to be among the stingiest presidents in history.

On the one hand, the craving for secrecy, order, and acts of executive will that brook no opposition; on the other hand, the need for simplicity, the love of vicarious battles and intoxicating emotions, and a cause as irrefutable as a local team to lead the cheering for.

And the very act of claiming executive power to create an Indian protectorate prompted charges of monarchy, the most potent political epithet of the age.

Any other Federal law (other than this subsection and section 605 of the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1996), Executive order, rule, regulation, delegation of authority, or document of or relating to the special court as previously established under paragraph (1) of this subsection.