Sentence examples for ruling on behalf of from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bennett, a white politician with a black political base, has often bluntly called Mr. Mugabe a dictator ruling on behalf of a greedy political elite.

Lord Phillips, ruling on behalf of the seven supreme court justices, said the question of whether litigants should be allowed anonymity raised "an important constitutional issue".

Established six years ago, the Court of Protection is responsible for ruling on behalf of individuals who lack the ability or "mental capacity" to make informed decisions about their lives.

The National Union of Journalists appealed the Chelmsford court ruling on behalf of the freelance journalist Jason Parkinson, who filmed the stun gun footage, and appeared alongside the BBC, Sky News and ITN, which produces ITV News, Channel 4 News and 5 News.

This centralized authority in one man is necessary to implement order; there is no real possibility that the many are capable of ruling on behalf of the many, given the prevalence of sin.

Based on early testimony, the court appears to be exasperated by the case but leaning toward ruling on behalf of the government in order to maintain the basic integrity of financial markets.

First, while Republicans claim to oppose the ruling class on behalf of the country as a whole, they often seem to be representing an equally narrow set of interest groups — mostly elderly, rural (the G.O.P. is a "country party" in a far too literal sense) and well-off.

They are members and agents of the adult ruling class, acting on behalf of that ruling class".

The case has taken on immense symbolism in South Korea, where the courts are believed to have never issued such a ruling before on behalf of foreign creditors.

Last August, a federal appeals court upheld the award to Taxman, but when the school board asked the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling, Dellinger, on behalf of the Administration, filed a brief with the Supreme Court urging that it not to accept the Taxman case for review.

Decisive proof came, he tells me, when he approached the town's ruling Liberal Democrats on behalf of Frome's branch of the Transition Towns movement, which seeks to respond to climate change on a local level.