Sentence examples for may exercise it from inspiring English sources

As an active privilege, it ranks with the privilege of committing murder: we may exercise it if we are willing to take the consequences.

The holder of the option may exercise it, in whole or part, if the deal is terminated for a variety of reasons, the filing said.

3 1, 7. Of course, a lawyer is a person and he too has a constitutional freedom of utterance and may exercise it to castigate courts and their administration of justice.

But there is no provision expressly investing either house with power to make investigations and exact testimony, to the end that it may exercise its legislative function advisedly and effectively.

Congress does not, however, have the power to waive sovereign immunity completely with respect to claims of a bankrupt estate against a State, though it may exercise its bankruptcy power through the supremacy clause to prevent or prohibit State action that is contrary to bankruptcy policy.

"It might be argued that the board may exercise its business judgment on whether to make the repair," he said.

Calcium may exercise its anticarcinogenic properties through several mechanisms.

Most, but not all, have a vesting period, usually of between three and five years; the option holder does not actually own the option, and therefore may not exercise it, until the option vests.

Crimes against private individuals or their property, like assaults, murder, burglary, larceny, robbery, arson, embezzlement, and frauds of all kinds, which affect the peace and good order of the community must, of course, be committed within the territorial jurisdiction of the government where it may properly exercise it.

But in saying that, "Where the Union has not exercised or ceases to exercise its competence in an area of shared competence, the member states may exercise theirs," it seems to be saying, to Eurosceptic ears, that national governments will only be free to act in these areas when the Union chooses not to.

In negotiations of rates for subsequent periods, an institution that has elected the option of subsection a may continue to exercise it at the same rate without further identification or documentation of costs.