This lists a series of policy areas where European nations "may" legislate, but only when "the Union has not exercised or ceases to exercise its competence".
But in saying that, "Where the Union has not exercised or ceases to exercise its competence in an area of shared competence, the member states may exercise theirs," it seems to be saying, to Eurosceptic ears, that national governments will only be free to act in these areas when the Union chooses not to.
And trying to explain how Chardin created his enchanting effects has never ceased to exercise writers on art.
In Castile, after the failed revolt of the townsmen known as comuneros (1520 21), the hidalgos (lower nobility) were the only surviving force in the Cortes, and even they ceased to exercise much real power.
By way of distinguishing the cases in hand from some which are cited by the appellants it is enough to observe that here the company has ceased to exercise the privilege, conferred by its charter, of maintaining and operating the road as a common carrier, and this because the available traffic has diminished to a point where further operation is economically impossible.
The notion that a woman who marries is, as if by some peculiar biochemical process, transformed into something like an extra organ of her husband, as functional and compliant as a healthy kidney, has ceased to exercise much persuasive power among the general public.
As our attachments, and consequently obligations, to families, neighborhoods, small businesses and charities diminish, I fear that people cease to exercise civic responsibility and fill the empty societal space with whatever appears on their easily accessed screens: reality TV, strident talking heads on cable news, gossip on social media.
Hamas might soon stop firing rockets, but then will Israel cease to exercise its violence against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank on a daily basis?
A hip replacement and a gradual ceasing to find the energy to exercise.
With respect to the end of any such suspension, the preceding sentence supersedes the provisions of title II of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1621 1622) which provide that powers or authorities exercised by reason of a national emergency shall cease to be exercised after the date of the termination of the emergency.
But your right to exercise the option does not cease, said Michael Schwartz, chief options strategist at Oppenheimer & Company.
