Sentence examples for rule on behalf from inspiring English sources

And while the court's four liberals – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer – will presumably rule on behalf of outright marriage equality, that leaves two votes.

Primogeniture imperils grace-founded civil lordship, making lords prone to rule on behalf of their own familial interests rather than in the interests of their subjects.

Although those who remember are reluctant to talk about the event, and the young have never been told, he says, under the right circumstances the passion that led the 1989 demonstrations "could spread again" and "quickly wash away the Communist Party's claim to rule on behalf of the people".

The attorneys general of 27 states, led by West Virginia and Texas, are suing to overturn the rule on behalf of their pals in the fossil fuel industry - excuse me, in the name of their constituents.

The ideology encoded in the technological innovations of California's software engineers -- to empower the individual and dispense with governing intermediaries -- contrasts sharply with the long history of China's "institutional civilization" that, for centuries, has empowered state authorities to rule on behalf of the people.

EchoStar says it opposed the rule on principle, on behalf of consumers' presumed First Amendment right to watch any satellite channel they choose, even if it did not originate locally.

From 1610 to 1617, Henry's widow, Marie de Médicis, ruled on behalf of their young son Louis XIII (reigned 1610 43).

That makes the federal government's objections to "English only" rules on behalf of Navajos rather poignant.

The lawyers for The Washington Post said they wanted the court to draw up rules on behalf of journalists everywhere that deal with the circumstances under which they can testify.

Colonial projects do not set out to do "good"; their primary intention is to exploit the ruled on behalf of the coloniser.

This was the "nationalist monarchy," whereby the monarch ruled on behalf of his society's nationalist aspirations and drive for independence (as opposed to the earlier types of legitimacy).