Sentence examples for use of the privilege from inspiring English sources

Federal trial judges sometimes fail to make the government justify its use of the privilege.

One editor's review contained a Dorothy Parker-like swat: "I made use of the privilege ordinary mortals have when they don't like a play and I left in the middle".

In the appeal, to be heard Monday by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the civil liberties union argues that the government has engaged in an inappropriate blanket use of the privilege and that the case should be allowed to proceed.

While federal judges usually have the last word on these issues, they are not the only ones expressing skepticism at Obama's expansive use of the privilege.

So although words like "Watergate," "stonewalling," and "what did he know and when did he know it" are now ricocheting through the news echo chamber, Obama's one-time use of the privilege is not exactly Nixonian.

And once the AIG rescue had legitimised the broadest possible use of this privilege, the Fed exploited it unflinchingly.

I try to make the best use of that privilege, doing all I can to get the truth across and also advocating for what I believe to be the right policies.

Starr has shown us how a conscienceless, ideologically vindictive use of the investigative privilege can undercut the legitimacy of any duly elected American government.... My own view is that if Mr. Clinton is impeached or forced to resign, American Puritanism, with its punitive lusts and its theocratic visions, will be reborn for the twenty-first century.

As a guarantee against over-zealous use of these privileges, the German side has a discreet provision that makes it easy for them to sell their stake.Since the French government has promised not to control more than 15%% of the new group, EADS can legitimately describe itself as a private company.

Bush's earliest use of the executive privilege came in his very first year of presidency.

We are declassifying more information and embracing more oversight of our actions, and narrowing our use of the State Secrets privilege.