An elaborate camouflage, it might serve to legitimate them both in the eyes of those over whom they were suddenly exercising or seeking to exercise enormous power, and in their own eyes as well.
This view, that Prince William is seeking to exercise control over journalists, particularly photographers, is not confined to the Sun.
Now, 12 years later, with the MSG deal expiring after this season, the Yankees are seeking to exercise the full power of their television rights.
In 2004, the American Civil Liberties Union sued him over the obstacle he placed in the path of pregnant prisoners seeking to exercise their right to abortion.
The program has been controversial because many of the local policemen were former Taliban or criminal elements seeking to exercise control over their areas.
But there is a further common feature: this violence seeks to punish women for seeking to exercise independent choice, for defying not only the wishes of their families but social expectation – for daring to be free.
Beyond that, Breuer's contacts in and influence with the DOJ will be in high demand by corporations, banks and other assorted oligarchs seeking to exercise the legal immunity which US political culture has bestowed on them.
Existing federal law deals only with crimes based on race, religion and national origin, and only in cases in which the victims had been seeking to exercise a federally protected right.
Federal law now prohibits crimes based on race, national origin or religion, but only when the victim was seeking to exercise a federally protected right, like voting, registering for school or using a restaurant.
The Court found that the regulations, which would have forced many of the abortion clinics in Texas to close, were not medically necessary, and imposed an "undue burden" on women seeking to exercise their right to abortion.
Last week, the day after the congress opened in Beijing, Ms. Pillay said she was disturbed by "continuing allegations of violence against Tibetans seeking to exercise their fundamental human rights of freedom of expression, association and religion".
