The county executive, Robert J. Gaffney, said in a veto message on May 15 that the towers were inappropriate in parks and could not be built without state permission because siting them could constitute an alienation of parkland, a legal consideration he said the legislation failed to address.
"These actions constitute an illegal alienation of Damrosch Park in violation of the New York State Public Trust Doctrine and other laws," said NYC Park Advocates, a nonprofit watchdog group, in a release.
Of course, the real interest in any of this is the extent to which this particular clan is representative of us all -- a symbol of the wild, varied, mixed-up connections and disconnections, assimilations and alienations, that constitute the family of American citizens.
But in a case decided last year, an appellate court ruled that a bylaw provision restricting the sale of certain units in a building only to existing owners did not constitute an unreasonable restraint on alienation.
The idea that alienation and displacement might themselves constitute the basis of a religious awakening would have been repellent to him.
This is because rangelands may constitute key seasonal grazing areas but are seen by states as unproductive and unused, and therefore as available for alienation (Sachedina 2008; Thompson and Homewood 2002; Thompson et al. 2009).
The 10 commandments that constitute Dogme's Vow of Chastity include the forswearing of extraneous sound and lighting, "superficial action" and "geographical and temporal alienation"; a commitment to hand-held camerawork; and censure of all genres and any explicit "taste".
That is because there has been some debate over whether such a fee constitutes an "unreasonable restraint on alienation," a common-law doctrine that prohibits unreasonable restrictions on the sale of real estate.
Following the general line of critical Marxism, Baudrillard argues that the process of social homogenization, alienation, and exploitation constitutes a process of reification in commodities, technologies, and things (i.e., "objects") come to dominate people ("subjects") divesting them of their human qualities and capacities.
This was New Queer Cinema, which emerged from the Aids crisis and collectively constituted an expressionistic cri de coeur of alienation, anger and desire.
