Sentence examples for arbitrary exercise of power from inspiring English sources

Have we not learned from the sexual abuse crisis, that an unaccountable arbitrary exercise of power leads to structures of sin, rather than structures of grace?

"Magna Carta gave us the right to oppose the arbitrary exercise of power, and we must not shirk in our responsibility.

The police are often out of shot, however - perhaps adding to the omnipresent menace and what feels like an arbitrary exercise of power.

China remains a viciously repressive dictatorship, where any weakness of the central government is compensated by the even more arbitrary exercise of power by local authorities.

In this new world, it must hold true to its vision: to transform what can be the arbitrary exercise of power by the executive into a more transparent process in which parliament plays a bigger role.

Things like this are not supposed to happen in a liberal democracy, especially in one that takes pride, as the United States does, in safeguards put in place against the arbitrary exercise of power.

Malcolm treats Strauss's custody ruling as a terrifyingly arbitrary exercise of state power.

The government now dismisses the idea that one function of the law is to defend people against the arbitrary exercise of state power.

"I want Congress and the administration to come up with a detainee policy that will be accepted by courts and so that the international community will understand that no one is in jail by an arbitrary exercise of executive power".

Laurence H. Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, said the ruling was "an intelligent compromise of extraordinarily difficult and almost irreconcilable competing principles" -- the need for deference to the executive as commander in chief, and for some check on the arbitrary exercise of government power.

Whatever the merits of the alleged embezzlement case against Mr. Gusinsky, there was no need to haul him off to prison, an action that cannot help but stir fear in a nation all too familiar with the arbitrary exercise of state power.