Sentence examples for constitutional capacity from inspiring English sources

A decade on, Baroness Hale remains the first and only woman to serve in such a crucial constitutional capacity.

Those states of small population, with the strongest political incentive to resist such a change, also have the constitutional capacity -- because a constitutional amendment takes approval by three-fourths of the states -- to prevent it from taking place.

The administration asserts that under the law the president, when acting in his constitutional capacity as commander in chief, may do whatever he wants, unfettered by laws passed by Congress.

Mr. Bush's order establishing the tribunals -- issued on Nov. 13 not as an executive order but rather as a military order by the president in his constitutional capacity as commander in chief of the armed forces -- set only broad guidelines for the tribunals.

Contrary to your suggestion that the president wants to subvert the independence of the judiciary, the comments and recommendations Mr Uribe has made have been intended to improve investigations and have been made in his constitutional capacity as head of state.You are also mistaken in considering Colombia is "unjustly" isolated abroad.

Vice President Mike Pence cast a tie-breaking vote in his constitutional capacity as president of the Senate.

The definition of "undesirable" is open to interpretation, but the Interfax news agency said it would apply to organisations deemed to pose a threat to the "foundations of Russia's constitutional order, defensive capacity and security".

Some are issued in the president's constitutional chief executive capacity, and set forth managerial requirements for specified federal operations.

The sequence of events by which the constraints were loosened or evaded may represent one nation's particular history, but they illustrate the limited capacity of constitutional restrictions to control international commitments in the long term.

Take California, where prison overcrowding is so extreme that the Supreme Court ruled that prisons at nearly double capacity violated the constitutional rights of inmates by jeopardizing their health and safety.

The capacity of distant constitutional actors to effectively communicate and change, monitor and enforce rules is limited (Cooke and Tahir 2012).