Change requires action and action is an exercise of power.
However, the White House also appears uncertain how to handle Mr. Sharon: When Israel began its latest action against Mr. Arafat's headquarters, White House officials noted that this time they were not justifying the military action as an exercise of Israel's right to self-defense.
On Thursday, Mr. Christie declared the Legislature's action merely "an exercise in theater".
This right extends to "the Government as a whole, regardless of which branch is at work in a particular instance," post at 511, and regardless of whether the challenged action was an exercise of the spending power, post at 512.
Talk without action is an exercise in futility!
He went on to say that he and other tribal leaders view their action as an exercise of their inherent tribal sovereignty, and he defied the American and Washington State Dental Association to challenge tribes' authority to license and employ dental therapists.
Hird called his legal action an expensive exercise.
Whatever the wisdom of filing criminal charges against students who thwarted a speech by Michael B. Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, at the University of California, Irvine, it is disheartening that the students' supporters continue to maintain, even after the university disciplined them, that their actions constituted an exercise of free speech.
This kind of authorization for action, however, is an exercise of sovereign power, and to any people who claimed such a right would be claiming it (the people) rather than the state embodies sovereign power.
Under the tort claims act, federal employees must observe federal laws and regulations, but generally have no liability for policy decisions or actions performed in an exercise of official discretion.
