Sentence examples for beyond its power from inspiring English sources

In the end, six judges voted that Bahlul's conviction should stand, while three judges would've reversed it on the grounds that the military commission here went beyond its power.

Beyond its power and its romance, The Narrow Road has a liveliness, an irreverence that offsets some of the horror.

Beyond its power as a source of news and commentary, the Internet has proved itself to be the ultimate fund-raising tool.

The new owners want him working for them, since he is an "excellent operations guy .The Texas state legislature is threatening to block the deal, even though that is strictly beyond its power.

But in a pair of 5-to-4 decisions, in 1995 and 2000, the court invalidated two laws, saying the activities that Congress had sought to address — guns near schools and violence against women — were local and noncommercial and thus beyond its power in regulating interstate commerce.

That's the sort of sweeping change the White House says is beyond its power.

No, Congress may not go "beyond its powers granted in the Constitution," as Representative Goodlatte insisted.

A decision-maker is said to be acting ultra vires (beyond its powers) when it does not have the power it purported to have, and therefore there is no basis in law for the impugned action or decision.

But lawyers for 26 US states challenging the legislation say that Congress has gone beyond its powers by, for the first time in its history, requiring people to buy a product from the private sector.

This break from Congressional tradition had a polemical purpose: Representative Robert Goodlatte, the Virginia Republican who came up with the idea, remarked that "lots of my constituents have said that Congress has gone beyond its powers granted in the Constitution".

When Mr Fayed appealed against the Inland Revenue's decision to scrap the personal tax agreement, Scottish judge Lord Gill threw out the deal, blaming the Inland Revenue for acting beyond its powers.