The 10-year tenure of the current secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has repeatedly revealed the limits of the office's authority.
"The charges all centered around [Dunham] exceeding the limits of authority of his office," said Tom Weston, interim union president.
When it comes to a mayoral election, people tune out because they're too distracted or understandably cynical, or because of the limits of power in that office, or because of the belief that no mayor can have a substantive impact on daily life.
The CRTs collaborated with other parts of the mental health system and with families/networks, but they had limited out-of-office and multidisciplinary contact.
Magistrates were required to exercise imperium within the limits of their office (provincia).
Indeed, the fact that Barack Obama now so appreciates the limits of his office and his lack of Jedi powers is rich with irony.
But, as Obama seems to have learned, reminding the public of the limits of the office can also help keep expectations more realistic.
Obama's first three years as President are the story of his realization of the limits of his office, his frustration with those constraints, and, ultimately, his education in how to successfully operate within them.
Harry Truman, one in a long line of Commanders-in-Chief frustrated by the limits of the office, once complained that the President "has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues..
Harry Truman, one in a long line of Commanders-in-Chief frustrated by the limits of the office, once complained that the President "has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues...
