Sentence examples for breach of separation from inspiring English sources

They claimed it was a breach of separation of powers and of congressional prerogatives.

But critics called the plan a clear breach of the separation of church and state.

"The Politics of Religion" (editorial, May 28) tries to turn a severe breach of the separation of church and state by the Department of Health and Human Services into a breach by the Roman Catholic Church.

"It's a serious breach of the separation of powers to have the executive looking over the judiciary's decisions," Judge Robert P. Patterson Jr. of Federal District Court in Manhattan said.

For some in Congress, an FBI raid on a congressman's office is an outrageous breach of the separation of powers between Congress and the executive branch.

But the White House is apparently willing to take on Congress on the principle that banning the president from assigning his advisers to handle particular policy issues would constitute a breach of the separation of powers.

The event provoked a backlash in Texas, including a lawsuit by atheists aimed at stopping it, charging that Perry was in breach of the separation of politics and religion.

The decision did not seem likely to help the prisoner whose case was under review, but the exception it announced drew a barbed dissent from Justice Antonin Scalia, who called the majority opinion "a series of transparent non sequiturs" and "a flagrant breach of the separation of powers".

"The CIA's unauthorized search of computer files and emails belonging to its Congressional oversight committee was a massive breach of the separation of powers and very well may have violated federal laws," Rockefeller's statement continued.

That an acting governor serving simultaneously in the executive branch and legislative branch made the position of governor incredibly powerful and was a breach of the "separation of powers" between branches of the government.

The newspaper described Trump's comments to the senators as "a highly unusual intervention from a president into a legislative inquiry involving his family and close aides," and quoted California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein as saying Trump's "inappropriate" approaches constituted a breach of the separation of powers.