Villiers acknowledged that the DUP resignations meant the functioning of the executive would become much more difficult.
And I have said that they have taken over, I believe, the functions of the executive branch in Florida".
But the Justice Department said such proposals "would constitute an unwarranted and unwise erosion of the president's authority to oversee the functioning of the executive branch" of government.
Six years ago, he rebuffed a probe into his energy task-force on the ground that it "would unconstitutionally interfere with the functioning of the executive branch".
In September, when Mr. Zuma appointed his preferred candidate for chief justice of the Constitutional Court, in the face of public protests, he complained loudly of judicial interference in the functioning of the executive branch.
Even without a formal shutdown, Clinton pointed out that Republicans have threatened to hold up the functioning of the executive branch by drowning it in federal investigations.
However, the fact that feedback of a single electrode measuring alpha and theta which affords a limited view of the complex interaction of brain networks involved in alcohol abuse and dependence works as well as it does, encourages the notion that feedback of EEG signals reflecting the functioning of the executive control and appetitive drive networks would yield even more impressive results.
To summarize, our results suggest that the transfer of information in theta band reflects the functioning of the central executive mechanism located in frontal lobes, and the transfer in gamma band activity reflects visuospatial manipulation.
"We are unwilling to acquiesce to the court's attempt to hijack the functions of the legislative and executive branches," he added. .
Parliamentary forms of government depart even further from the concept of separation and integrate both the personnel and the functions of the legislature and the executive.
