But Sinn Féin and the SDLP exercised a veto known as the "petition of concern" where bills can be defeated if one side of the sectarian/political divide claims there is insufficient cross-community support for the law.
He believes that this policy, exercised intelligently, could reduce black-on-black killings, and David Blunkett seems to agree.
The twin dominating characters in that organisation were McGuinness and Adams, who exercised almost full control of their membership.
SH When I was a child, people were much exercised by hangings.
All the papers agree that Jenkins was a rare politician in that he had exercised influence up to the very end of his life.
"Even if we are wrong and there is a duty that has not been fulfilled... the court can not say [this duty] must be exercised [in a particular way]," he said.
At UWA and elsewhere, academics, students and campaigners exercised their academic freedom and their freedom of speech to voice their concerns.
They argued that in passing the legislation the NSW parliament had exercised judicial powers it did not have under the constitution.
According to the PDSA, the causes of pet obesity are fairly straightforward: pets are being fed too much and exercised too little.
Among those who exercised vigorously – defined as hard training several times a week – the lifespan was as much as five years longer than among those who were sedentary.
Prior to the revelation of clerical child abuse and that bishops were fathering children in secret, the church exercised enormous political influence on the major parties.
