Sentence examples for institutional restraints from inspiring English sources

In effect, the court took institutional restraints originally placed on judges to preserve legislative authority and imposed them on the legislature to preserve judicial authority.

Attempts by Pakistan's first popularly elected prime minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, to create institutional restraints on the military's power failed because of his propensity to use the defense establishment for political purposes.

In countries where institutional restraints on executive power are often weak, the risk is high that even leaders who start out well end up undermining democracy by staying on too long.Mr Mbeki likes to practise what he calls "quiet diplomacy".

But its leaders, who claim to regard Turkey's mildly Islamist ruling party (with the same name) as a model rather than more radical Islamist groups, such as Hamas, do not seem to mind the institutional restraints.

Without the institutional restraints of a robust democracy and public criticism by a free media and the political opposition, such a leader eventually becomes a blinkered one, unconcerned with anyone's opinions, and certain that he is always right.

So too will labor costs but not as rapidly or extensively as institutional restraints, minimal staffing and overhead requirements and other factors limit cuts in wages and payrolls.

Politics has become less about institutional restraint and more about giving voters whatever they want at that second.

"Political leadership," he writes, "is less subject to institutional restraint and is closer to being an elected dictatorship than in any other western democracy".

One of the hardest things for many people to understand is the powerful complementarity between the rights of individual faculty members and students to speak out strongly on issues of all kinds and the need for institutional restraint in addressing broad political and social issues.

There is an air of near-institutional restraint throughout, heightened by the whiteness of all the walls and cabinets (Mr. Robbins said the intent was to direct the entire focus of the space toward the ceiling), and by a relatively tight renovation budget, which, given the size of the building, meant that high-end materials were kept to a minimum.

They erected all sorts of institutional and social restraints to protect Americans from themselves.