Sentence examples for assert the state from inspiring English sources

"Whatever power the executive may otherwise have had in this regard, FISA limits the power of the executive branch to conduct such activities and it limits the executive branch's authority to assert the state secrets privilege in response to challenges to the legality of its foreign intelligence surveillance activities".

Government officials loudly promised to assert the state's control, while privately conceding that they were outgunned and incapable of fulfilling such a pledge.

Using only the accumulated PCR values, it is difficult to assert the state of a system.

It wasn't the case that "no one" could assert the state's interest.

Gallup also wrote a "legal validity letter" to the South African government on Bey's behalf to assert the state's legal obligation to respect Bey's freedom of travel.

Yet they now possess "the authority to participate as a party in a court action and to assert legal arguments in defense of the state's interest in the validity of the initiative measure when the public officials who ordinarily would assert the state's interest in the validity of the measure have not done so".

Yet Mr. Abbas asserts, "The State of Palestine intends to be a peace-loving nation, committed to human rights, democracy, the rule of law".

It was dismissed last February after the Bush administration asserted the "state secrets privilege," claiming that the disclosure of information in the case could damage national security.

By shifting the primary to February, Mr. Codey asserted, the state could no longer be ignored by the candidates and the small army of national reporters who trail them, ending its relegation to "the sidelines of presidential primary elections".

The suit said that Detroit, which in April agreed to a deal with the state to steady its finances, could not enter into the contract because, the suit asserted, the state owes Detroit hundreds of millions of dollars from past debts.

We look forward to respectfully asserting the State's case," Zoeller said, according to WLFI.com.