Sentence examples for an unprecedented assertion from inspiring English sources
He stressed that the insurance mandate constituted an unprecedented assertion of federal power that could leave virtually every human act — and passive choice — subject to Congress's whim.
Put another way, an unprecedented assertion of regulatory authority may itself have justified an unprecedented exercise of the Court's jurisdiction to stay the agency's action.
Here, Judges Dubina and Hull make a broader point: that whether or not opting out of the insurance market is economic activity, there can be no doubt that the individual mandate represents an unprecedented assertion of federal power.
The Estonian "declaration of sovereignty," approved 258-1 with five abstentions, was an unprecedented assertion of political independence from Moscow by one of the Soviet Union's 15 constituent republics, and it came with the full backing of the Estonian Communist Party and the republic's government.
The position, Mr. Schiff said, "represents a wholly unprecedented assertion of executive power".
Keller asserted that Dapa is an unprecedented unlawful assertion of executive power and one of the biggest changes in immigration policy in American history.
"Dapa [Deferred Action for Parents of Americans] is an unprecedented unlawful assertion of executive power," he began.
Arguing on the other side, Texas Solicitor Gen. Scott Keller called Obama's order an "unprecedented unlawful assertion of executive power" and potentially "one of the largest changes in immigration policy in our nation's history".
They note that the president's action arose after Congress refused to change the law in line with his wishes, so the order rests on "an unprecedented, sweeping assertion of executive power," they say.
He wants to "restore the balance," as he put it, after the unprecedented assertion of authority by Vice President Dick Cheney.
Although some legal scholars unconvincingly insist the mandate's constitutionality has been established by prior rulings, others see it as the unprecedented assertion of power it plainly is.
