Sentence examples for illegitimate exercise from inspiring English sources

Was this an illegitimate exercise in making "new law," or a perfectly routine example of a court trying to extract coherence from a confusing and contradictory set of statutory provisions?

WASHINGTON — Accusing the Obama administration of "an illegitimate exercise of executive power," a federal judge on Thursday rejected the government's effort to impose new restrictions on lawyers' access to prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, if they were no longer actively challenging the prisoners' detention in federal court.

One element is Iran's potential deterrent capacity, an illegitimate exercise of sovereignty that might interfere with U.S. freedom of action in the region.

In the note presented by the deputy foreign minister, Carlos Foradori, to Ambassador Mark Kent on Friday, Argentina asked Britain to call off the "illegitimate" exercises.

Some, emphasizing power and justice, strive to expose illegitimate exercises of dominating power in order to bring about a more-just social arrangement in which the dominated are no longer so.

Advocates of the democratic discussion model of objectivity have responded by refining the norm of equality so as to distinguish legitimate differences of expertise and competence from illegitimate exercises of social power to exclude some criticisms, such as those emerging from disadvantaged social positions, from a serious hearing (Anderson 1995c, Longino 2001).

Where Jacquot's concern is flesh and lust, Coppola's is aesthetic pleasure as such; the hedonism she depicts at Versailles like that of Hollywood in her film "Somewhere"—is doomed by the illegitimate and unprincipled exercise of power.

Where Jacquot's concern is flesh and lust, Coppola's is aesthetic pleasure as such; the hedonism she depicts at Versailles — like that of Hollywood in her film "Somewhere" — is doomed by the illegitimate and unprincipled exercise of power.

Even a political leader herself can with good reason believe that her political power is illegitimate, and that exercising this power is unjustified.

But we doubt it will ever be possible to programme autonomous air systems to be able to exercise distinction between legitimate and illegitimate targets.

Any amendments that fail to meet the standards required by law will be illegitimate, regardless of whether they follow a public engagement exercise.