Sentence examples for exercise on behalf from inspiring English sources

But I'm not here to present a PR exercise on behalf of the gay community.

The Treasury department's Tax Relief Kit is a propaganda and spin exercise on behalf of the Bush tax cuts.

Although it would seem to be a clear impediment to the free exercise of interstate commerce, the court, in Sligh v. Kirkwood (1915), upheld the measure as legitimate police power exercise on behalf of its citizenry.

At the same time as the UK was engaging in this PR exercise on behalf of the Bahraini government, Saudi Arabia was mobilising its foreign service to bully states so that they would not support the statement on Bahrain, which is very sensitive to international pressure and cares about its image.

Sgt John Garner from Gloucestershire Police has coordinated the exercise on behalf of Gloucestershire's Local Resilience Forum.

Small groups of unelected, elitist judges end up substituting their own, highly contentious views about the proper limits of government power for the considered judgments of the people's representatives, e.g., those members of Congress or Parliament duly elected to exercise, on behalf of the people, the latter's sovereign right to participate in political decisions affecting their basic rights.

Since then, Hitchens has steadily warmed to American power exercised on behalf of democracy.

And that influence is exercised on behalf of a foreign country - the state of Israel.

Marston used to get particularly exercised, on behalf of Woman, at the thought of all those chains and Her struggle to break out of them.

Even if the competing theory of popular sovereignty the theory that vested sovereignty in the people of the United States was accepted, it still might be argued that this sovereignty need not be exercised on behalf of the people solely by the national government but could be divided on a functional basis between the federal and state authorities.

Political power, he argued, though divine in origin, should be exercised on behalf of the people by their elected representatives.It was all too much and anyhow the conservatives were determined to get Mr Nouri out of the way before the parliamentary elections.