But beyond this, and much deeper and less personal, is a challenge to a rigid, unreasonable and unreasoning authority.
"The government must therefore accept that it is not unreasonable for authorities who have, in many cases, supported dispersal for the best part of two decades and have carried a disproportionate share of the unfunded costs and pressures, to request more equitable treatment," the committee's report said.
Critics see an unreasonable craving for authority in Newman's anti-liberalism.
This will ensure businesses and tax authorities can continue having a transparent dialogue without creating an unreasonable burden on authorities that could jeopardise such arrangements".
It's not unreasonable for a local authority to aspire to achieve a 10% saving through CPCE," he says.
Mr. Patrick has also proposed legislation that would give the state new authority to reject unreasonable hospital and physician prices, just as it did Thursday with insurance premiums.
In the closing weeks of the health care debate, the White House offered a proposal to give the health secretary authority to deny unreasonable increases.
Conveying a greater sense of moral authority than simply "unreasonable" or "exorbitant", the word has perhaps been used to emphasise the moral purpose of the project.
But the EPA argues that Congress did not intend to include CO2 under that heading, and that to do so would extend the EPA's authority to an unreasonable extent.
And the case is to be considered in the light of the principle that the State is primarily the judge of regulations required in the interest of public safety and welfare, and its police statutes may only be declared unconstitutional where they are arbitrary or unreasonable attempts to exercise the authority vested in it in the public interest.
Forty forces have now responded in a very similar fashion that the BBC's FOI application does not have to be answered on the basis it is "vexatious", due to the "burden on the authority" and the "unreasonable persistence" of requesters.
