The deeply conservative general now has virtually absolute power, with command of the powerful military and the authority to impose curfews, stifle political opposition and cut funding for the populist programs undertaken by former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her billionaire brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, before her.
And Hirabayashi and Korematsu both demonstrated, Jackson warned, that the federal judiciary is unlikely ever to constrain executive branch excess: "If the people ever let command of the war power fall into irresponsible and unscrupulous hands, the courts wield no power equal to its restraint.
A command of the speaking power of silence is almost a prerequisite for performing the plays of Samuel Beckett.
His political role, however, was limited, as Prime Minister Václav Klaus (1993 97) commanded much of the power.
After leading a German army against Romania for 10 months, Falkenhayn took command of the Central Powers forces (mainly Turkish) in Palestine (July 9 , 1917.
Anne failed, however, in her attempts to persuade the States General of the Netherlands to elect her husband captain-general of all Dutch forces, to maintain the unified command of the Maritime Powers that William had held.
So long as we are rational, "we are obliged to carry out absolutely all commands of the sovereign power, however absurd they may be" (16, 200).
For instance, his claim that "we are obliged to carry absolutely all the commands of the sovereign power, however absurd they may be" (16, 200) is contingent on our behaving rationally and wanting to avoid being regarded as enemies of the state.
Cimon moreover, when he took the command, found the power of the king broken, and the spirits of the Persians humbled by their great defeats and incessant routs under Themistocles, Pausanias, and Leontychides, and thus easily overcame the bodies of men whose souls were quelled and defeated beforehand.
In each complaint, agents appeared to be trying to use "command influence," the power of senior leaders to sway junior officers, on First Command's behalf.
