Sentence examples for exercise a power from inspiring English sources

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When making prototypes becomes accessible and fun then people can exercise a power to do innovation.

WASHINGTON — After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, top Democratic senators geared up to exercise a power they had not possessed since the Clinton years: recommending nominees for key federal posts in their states.

'Inquiry into the hidden motives which may move Congress to exercise a power constitutionally conferred upon it is beyond the competency of courts.' Sonzinsky v. United States, supra, 300 U.S. at pages 513, 514, 57 S.Ct. at pages 555, 556, 81 L.Ed. 772.

While he felt that build-up of brain activity prior to awareness meant that consciousness played no part in the instigation of an action, he thought there was a short (around 100-150 millisecond) window of opportunity in which it could exercise a "power of veto" – enabling us to make a decision not to act, even though we may experience an unconscious urge to do so.

That the derived inferior power can by no construction or pretence assume or exercise a power to subvert the principal supreme power.

This was backed up by The Zamora, where the Privy Council held generally that to exercise a power not granted by statute (such as a prerogative) the government must prove to the court that the exercise is justified.

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The Commission exercised a power of rulemaking which controls broadcasters.

Under Clause 14, Congress, like Parliament, exercises a power of precedence over, not exclusion of, Executive authority.

Indeed, it was, in so doing, only exercising a power expressly named in the act creating the commission.

6 (1) For the purposes of exercising a power under paragraph 2 or 3 an examining officer may— (a) stop a person or vehicle; (b) detain a person.

That the assembly exercises a power of determining the Quorum of their own body which may legislate for us.

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