Sentence examples for illegal power from inspiring English sources

The veto was declared illegal in a 2012 decision by Judge Amy Berman Jackson of Federal District Court, who called it an illegal power grab.

They have been loud enough for John Kerry, the US secretary of state, to issue a warning against an illegal power grab.

Engineers and technicians slept over, illegal power lines from the French railway system juiced their instruments, and when the temperature hit 100, they rehearsed with their pants off.

That would be an illegal power grab, the EPA's critics argue.The EPA retorts that Congress instructed it to issue rules when they are "appropriate and necessary" to protect public health and so the rule is justified.

Set in rural Alabama in the 1920s, it tells the story of a pioneering electricity engineer sent to prison for manslaughter after a young man stumbles on one of his illegal power lines.

"The area was quickly divided into tiny plots, shacks were being raised and some residents already had illegal power connections," she says.

Meanwhile, Mr Kerry is likely to make it very clear to Dr Abdullah that Americans would view any early move by him as an illegal power-grab.

Republicans have accused the president of an "illegal power-grab".

Republicans reacted with fury, with Arizona Republican Senator John McCain calling it an "illegal power-grab" that "fails to address the root causes of the dysfunction in our immigration system".

"They've gained illegal monopoly power".

In fact, Hamas supports democracy, is the democratically elected majority representative of the Palestinian people and takes up arms solely within Palestine because there is no alternative against an illegal occupying power that confiscates its people's lands and destroys their livelihoods.