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organ of state
noun
Any of the three primary divisions of a state's sovereignty (namely, the executive, the legislature, or the judiciary); the powers of each having been divided and balanced in accordance with the political principle of the separation of powers.
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Article 41 of the Constitution describes the National Diet as "the highest organ of state power" and "the sole law-making organ of the State".
Every organ of state is harnessed to do the Kremlin's bidding.
The new body superseded the Supreme Soviet as the highest organ of state power.
Any organ of state will inevitably reject rules that are generated and enforced by all, and not a singular authority.
He added: "Worse still, the legislation creates an opt-in possibility for any organ of state, literally from your local library through to your nuclear research facility.
Such an act by an organ of state is completely unheard of in Angola, and caught many of us by surprise.
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"This is doubly iniquitous where organs of state are involved as their pockets seem, by contrast, limitless," they said.
Relatives describe a heartbreaking, desolate search through some of the most terrifying organs of state power to try to find a trace of loved ones.
Meanwhile, Beria's gang, which ran the organs of state security, outdid itself in proving the guilt of the arrested and the truth of materials which it falsified.
The investigative and satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné broke the news, such as it was, describing a naked president with "the principal organs of state" in view.
Yet its website is still freely accessible from China: evidence of how Chinese organs of state control are often fragmented, inefficient and ill co-ordinated.
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