Sentence examples for functioning of the executive from inspiring English sources
Villiers acknowledged that the DUP resignations meant the functioning of the executive would become much more difficult.
But the Justice Department said such proposals "would constitute an unwarranted and unwise erosion of the president's authority to oversee the functioning of the executive branch" of government.
Six years ago, he rebuffed a probe into his energy task-force on the ground that it "would unconstitutionally interfere with the functioning of the executive branch".
In September, when Mr. Zuma appointed his preferred candidate for chief justice of the Constitutional Court, in the face of public protests, he complained loudly of judicial interference in the functioning of the executive branch.
"Confidentiality shouldn't be asserted to shield the government from accountability," said Judge J. Michael Luttig, former head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the first Bush administration, "but by the same token, confidential advice to the president is essential to the proper functioning of the executive branch".
Even without a formal shutdown, Clinton pointed out that Republicans have threatened to hold up the functioning of the executive branch by drowning it in federal investigations.
The Diet did not initiate important legislation; this was chiefly the function of the executive.
And I have said that they have taken over, I believe, the functions of the executive branch in Florida".
In doing so, he argued, the Administration was doing nothing more than establishing its enforcement priorities, which is a core function of the executive branch.
"Even if federal courts had some power to micromanage the executive branch, separation of powers prohibits the use of that power to the extent it interferes with core functions of the executive," the department said.
Although he was not himself an academic, his first book, Functions of the Executive (1938), became an essential resource in the teaching of organizational sociology and business theory.
