Sentence examples for of arbitrary power from inspiring English sources

We are suspicious of arbitrary power, wary of government interference.

Yes, the harnessing and abuse of arbitrary power has happened in the past.

Mr Brown talked about the evils of arbitrary power, and the recent neglect of liberty by unspecified politicians.

Such chief executives, abetted by pliant boards, submissive underlings and craven accountants, bankers and lawyers, have the sort of arbitrary power of which despots can only dream.

A profound, sometimes anguished fellow-feeling for the victims of arbitrary power ran, like a golden thread, through Burke's 30 years in parliament.

The paper points out that governments which punish sacrilege are giving representatives of the state, from bureaucrats to judges to village elders, a kind of arbitrary power.

In reports submitted to the review, many independent Chinese groups and international organizations have deplored what they say is the continued use of arbitrary powers to stifle dissent, despite some improvements in China's legal procedures.

Although Sir Paul Condon refused to accept that the Metropolitan Police is "institutionally racist", in oral evidence to the Lawrence inquiry he admitted that there is "unconscious" and "deliberate" racism in the police service which can be "played out in discrimination" and "the unfair use of arbitrary powers".

A government of arbitrary powers is one in which politicians have a lot of power.

To this war, both parties have given their assent, and the executive branch is poised to bequeath to the next chief executive a handsome array of arbitrary powers.

In this respect, his behaviour resembles that of neighbouring Thailand's military bosses who, having seized power in a coup in 2014, ostensibly because democracy was not working, have grown adept at finding ways of clinging to arbitrary power.