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.
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.
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.
They saw it as an important check on power, exercised on behalf of citizens of a free nation.
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.
It is an awesome and sacred trust to be earned and exercised on behalf of the American people," O'Malley said in an interview on ABC's "This Week".
In this situation the House of Lords decided (in Les Affréteurs v Walford [1919] AC 801) that the trustee's ability to sue the owner of the property is to be exercised on behalf of the beneficiary, a third party.
