Sentence examples for assert a power from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, the opposition brought hundreds of thousands of people into the streets to denounce his attempt to assert a power above the courts and over the Islamist domination of the assembly drafting the national charter.

The landowners seem to be asserting a power to exclude that they do not possess.

Now, in the court brief, the Justice Department was asserting a power to wiretap without first obtaining a warrant.

Chief Justice Marshall spoke for a unanimous Court in saying that: 'If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery.' A Governor who asserts a power to nullify a federal court order is similarly restrained".

has been irresistible". From the beginning, Burns continues, the Court has established its "supremacy" over the president and Congress because of Chief Justice John Marshall's "brilliant political coup" in Marbury v. Madison (1803): asserting a power to strike down unconstitutional laws.

According to leaders from last year's action at Northwest Detention Center, hunger strikes enable migrants to assert a sense of power and agency even in the most desperate of circumstances.

In the absence of any attempt by the Boards of Review to assert such a power, we do not believe that petitioner may properly be required to exhaust a remedy which may not exist.

The lockout that ended last weekend was not, as some have asserted, a mere power play by the owners.

While technically a victory for the president, the ruling asserted a significant power of the judiciary by establishing the doctrine of judicial review.

In the 1960's and 1970's, federal courts asserted a broad power to hear claims by state prisoners that their trials had violated the Constitution.

Still, they knew that nothing could be done to prescribe bounds to the press, because its freedom was guaranteed by the Constitution in order to give the people some independent means of learning what their government was doing, and because it would be impossible to assert what was fair and what was unfair without asserting a dictatorial power over the press.