Sentence examples for clerk power from inspiring English sources

His tale is told from the point of view of a political and judicial liberal, and I am skeptical about his fairness in blaming Chief Justice Rehnquist for the prevalence of clerk power.

Lalia Rach knew the snapping point for travelers' patience was near when she noticed that an unexpected charge for energy had been tacked onto her hotel bill, reflecting, the clerk said, power shortages on the West Coast.

From the fattest minister to the humblest clerk, anyone with power tried to turn it into cash.

Anyone who has ever been humiliated by a hostile clerk playing petty power games from behind a counter can attest to the frustrations and the fleeting fantasies of murder and power-grabbing that run through daily life.

Everyone in the cert pool gives the law clerks too much power.

Court clerks wield immense power, inching forward a paper flow that would otherwise be entirely stagnant.

The lawsuit contends that the Dona Ana County clerk exceeded his powers as a local official in issuing the licenses to gay couples.

In the UK, it is of a power-mad clerk, pinched with condescension.

A man entered the store about 7 15 a.m. and asked for directions to the Point Beach nuclear power plant, the clerk told the police in Two Rivers.

Past legal challenges to the governor's power to fill clerk vacancies have failed in the courts, most notably in Suffolk County in 1989, when Mario Cuomo was governor and Patrick J. Halpin was county executive.

Lundi uses her powers as a clerk, and forges their passports, removing the documentation about their movements.