One of the claims made by the class action was that the response to the riots and emergency declaration were excessive.
In what he later described as a mood of "doubtlessly excessive indignation", Lefebvre wrote a "Declaration" in which he strongly attacked the modernist and liberal trends that he saw as apparent in the reforms being undertaken within the Church at that time.
And in many respects the bank's statement Thursday was its strongest declaration yet that it would not tolerate excessive borrowing costs for euro zone countries.
Among the complaints in the class action – launched by Wotton on behalf of Palm Islanders – is that an emergency declaration, subsequent raids and arrests without warrants were excessive.
Complaints in the class action – launched by once-jailed riot-inciter Lex Wotton on behalf of Palm Islanders – include that the declaration of an emergency, subsequent raids and warrants without arrests were excessive.
The declaration of an emergency and the subsequent raids and arrests without warrants were excessive, the barrister for the community, Chris Ronalds SC, said.
In the mid-1970s, Congress decided that the existence of perpetual national emergencies like Truman's 1950 declaration were a danger to democracy and that the executive authorities available to the president under TWEA were excessive.
But I can report from firsthand experience that the declaration as a whole, and not just its most famous phrases, remains remarkably immune to the degrading effects of excessive familiarity.
