Sentence examples for unwarranted powers from inspiring English sources

MPs and republicans have complained the little-known power to veto or consent to new legislation grants the Queen and Prince Charles unwarranted powers and is undemocratic.

Be assured that if this excuse can be used to seize unwarranted powers, Americans will be living under "emergency conditions" for the rest of their lives.

That is what's at stake here: to an NSA with these unwarranted powers, we're all potentially guilty; we're all potential suspects until we prove otherwise.

Such constructs permit small groups to assume unwarranted powers which, according to Saint-Just, leads to corruption within society.

That countries would circumvent it was obvious especially those on whom a nuclear bomb confers otherwise unwarranted power.

The Greek debt crisis laid bare the immense, and some would say unwarranted, power that they wield.

Fortunately, the design was laid down centuries ago -- by 800 years of law, and by the idea that free people are entitled to limit the unwarranted power of others over their persons and property.

When Bernie Sanders denounces the control of big money over our politics and the unwarranted power of the millionaire and billionaire class, he's not just speaking truth to power, he's mobilizing the "people with the pitchforks" that Obama said early on he was protecting the bankers against.

As such, a constitution is anything but the protection from unwarranted government power that its champions have heralded over the centuries.

We also discover that these large social benefits result primarily from eliminating unwarranted market power in the current stock of granted patents, and much less so from litigation cost savings per se.

Critical theories, both hard and democratic, represent a serious challenge not only to conventional theories and established practices of constitutional interpretation, but to the very idea of constitutionalism itself the idea that government can and should be limited in ways that serve to protect us from unwarranted state power.