Sentence examples for constitution designed to prevent from inspiring English sources

The poll was held under a new constitution designed to prevent a repeat of the violence.

This time the poll was held under a new constitution, designed to prevent a repeat of that violence when more than 1,000 people died when supporters of rival candidates clashed.

A constitution designed to prevent democracy taking over everything has now succumbed to it.

There is a long history of democratically elected governments around the world undermining the democratic process through restrictions on the franchise, a risk that the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was designed to prevent.

Part of the reason Americans haven't erupted in outrage over this practice is that they cannot believe it is true; the Constitution was designed to prevent just this sort of abuse.

It is, of course, in direct contravention of the separation of powers on which the United States was founded, and critics have long insisted that it is nothing less than an attempt by the executive to seize the dictatorial powers that the Constitution was designed to prevent.

The generals are drawing up a constitution designed to keep populist parties like Mr Thaksin's Pheu Thai from power.

That's why they enshrined in the Constitution itself prohibitions designed to prevent such corruption.

The structure of the government established by the Constitution is carefully designed to prevent government officials from exercising power that is not authorized by a prior principle of reason set forth in our written law.

"The constitution we live under — which is [Dictator Augusto] Pinochet's constitution of 1980 — was designed to prevent significant change to the economic and political model," he said.

Their argument: The Constitution's emoluments clause was designed to prevent the public from being left to wonder if the president had unseen business relationships with foreign powers.