Sentence examples for exercised on behalf from inspiring English sources

The power is more likely to be exercised on behalf of establishment political figures, not outsiders.

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.

They started, therefore, to pool their sovereignties to the extent needed to maintain peace and prosperity (e.g., the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the European Union), and sovereignty is being increasingly exercised on behalf of the peoples of the world not only by national governments but also by regional and international organizations.

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.

All the brethren had exceptional skills to exercise on behalf of Mary, but the juggler felt he had nothing worthy to offer.

Iran's leading clerics and political figures must "take back the authority which they should be exercising on behalf of the people," Mrs. Clinton said at a news conference after a nearly four-hour meeting with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at his desert camp outside the capital, Riyadh.

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.

His official powers included the right of "search and seizure", which he did not hesitate to exercise on behalf of the trade or to further his own interests.

The prerogative powers that the government officials exercise on behalf of the Crown, coupled with a weak system of checks and balances between the Parliament and the executive, can lead to an abuse of those powers which may be detrimental to the people.