Sentence examples for exercising its powers from inspiring English sources
Nothing could prevent an omnipotent agent from exercising its powers, if it were to endeavor to do so.
If Congress failed in exercising its powers, whereby standards of fairness are offended, the remedy ultimately lies with the people.
I had always thought that the courts were not to concern themselves with the motives of the legislature in exercising its powers.
In theory, Congress could pay debts not only by borrowing more money, but also by exercising its powers to impose taxes, to coin money or to sell federal property.
He cited a concurring opinion of Justice William O. Douglas in one of the 1975 cases, saying that immunity from antitrust laws was available "only if the S.E.C. is actively and aggressively exercising its powers of review and approval".
In Birkdale District Electricity Supply Co. v. Southport Corporation (1926), the House of Lords held that if legislation entrusts a public authority with certain powers and duties to be exercised for public purposes, it is illegal for the authority to enter into a contract that prevents itself from exercising its powers.
The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare.
"It is important that Facebook is exercising its power carefully and protecting more speech rather than less".
In December 1999 Trimble agreed, on the understanding that the IRA would fulfill its obligations to disarm, that the Northern Ireland Assembly could begin exercising its power.
