Sentence examples for acts of executive from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

For many of those who have fallen through the cracks of Rockefeller Drug Law reform, their only hope to regain their freedom is through the act of executive clemency.

"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.

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.

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But what about acts of the executive branch?

That is because "the acts of the executive are by definition justiciable in its own courts".