Sentence examples for standing to act from inspiring English sources

The issue was regarded as important enough for the court to hear separate arguments, and to appoint its own lawyer, Vicki Jackson, to present the case for why Congress does not have "standing" to act in defence of Doma.

That act "certainly does not reflect very well on [Soon's] ethical standards, but this is an issue that I don't think the journal has standing to act on," Forveille wrote.

As a strictly symbolic monarch, however, Charles and his hapless conscience have no standing to act as anything other than Parliament's rubber-stamp.

"Given its failure to secure just social conditions," he writes, "the state lacks the moral standing to act as an agent of moral reform".

The Yale College Faculty has charged the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing to act for it and with its authority in matters of academic rules and standards.

Historian Roderick J. Barman had a far less laudatory view toward him, saying that although he had "success as a minister and a diplomat", and as prime minister and during Pedro II's absence, Rio Branco "had more than proved his capacities" in that he "did not possess, as had [the Marquis of] Paraná, the character and political standing to act independently of the Emperor.

The board would have two tasks: first, to review and make recommendations on the standards and processes used to classify information for national security purposes; and second, to serve as a standing body to act on Congressional and certain executive branch requests to re-examine classification decisions.

In a final report, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) urged the federal government to create a new standing committee to act as a kind of permanent rulemaker and appeals board in this field.

3 The court did not explicitly rule on the issue of whether appellant lacked standing to challenge the Act.

Finally, in the circumstances of the present case, we do not regard appellant's opportunity to defend any criminal prosecutions as sufficient to deprive him of standing to challenge the Act.

He also broke tradition by remaining standing to receive cardinals' acts of homage after his election, instead of sitting in the papal throne, Lombardi said.