Sentence examples for exercised in the name of from inspiring English sources

It is closer to Kelsen's view that legality is at bottom a boundary separating permissible coercion exercised in the name of the community and impermissible coercion not so exercised (though of course for Kelsen this would be a moral boundary that only need exist in the eyes of the law, whether or not it exists outright; see Kelsen 1952).

Both contenders believe that presidents enjoy unaccountable autocratic powers if exercised in the name of "national security".

She was referring to authorities' surveillance overreach and online censorship exercised in the name of national security, among other pretexts, during the conference's first plenary session in Helsinki.

Jihad has been one of the casualties of the schizophrenic, dichotomous rift which has magnified to separate moderate,  intellectual sincere Islam from ritualistic, fanatical radicalism exercised in the name of Islam by nihilists who seek to extinguish all which is true about this great religion.

So Tarnopolsky and colleagues including the coordinator of his rehab program recruited 11 young men willing to exercise in the name of science.

The name was at first applied to territories both in Italy and wherever else a Roman official exercised authority in the name of the Roman state.

Some theologians have argued that only the ordained can exercise power in the name of the pope.

In the 19th century the English jurist John Austin (1790 1859) developed the concept further by investigating who exercises sovereignty in the name of the people or of the state; he concluded that sovereignty is vested in a nation's parliament.

Intervention in Somalia, the original Gulf war, foreign-aid programmes and the Bosnian peace-keeping mission are much harder to justify.It is said that America's might obliges it to exercise power in the name of "good".

His last debunking exercise in the name of scientific psychology was another Metropolitan Magazine article in 1913, an enlarged version of which he incorporated in Psychology and Social Sanity (Münsterberg, 1914), which outlines his investigations of Beulah Miller, a 10-year-old girl in Warren, Rhode Island.

The Crown is the collectivity of executive powers exercised by or in the name of the sovereign the head of state who reigns by hereditary right, as opposed to the elected head of government.