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The Tea Party House attempt to encroach upon the Senate's role in the appointment process is such a bold usurpation that it presents an opportunity for President Obama to push back against confirmation obstruction.

As I explained in last week's National Law Journal, the House Tea Party action is such a historic usurpation that it gives President Obama an opportunity to fight back against the broader appointment abuse and obstruction.

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Ironically, while it was these usurpations that led to the breakup of the Empire during the crisis, it was the strength of several frontier generals that helped reunify the empire through force of arms.

It is by self-usurpation that the extraordinary fall of unemployment in the US is attributed to the Fed policies.

The grievances in the United States Declaration of Independence were presented as "repeated injuries and usurpations" that he had committed to establish an "absolute Tyranny" over the colonies.

This photo gave him the idea for the psychological usurpation of identity that is the theme of "Persona," which he shot in less than three months over the summer of 1965.

Mr. Slinger emerges fully breathless at the start, as if consumed to breaking point and beyond by a need to chronicle for his only child the usurpation in Milan that has caused him to raise the storm that opens the play.

He said that Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion, was a "wholly unjustifiable judicial usurpation" of authority that belonged to the states, that the court's recent rulings on affirmative action were problematic and that the First Amendment didn't apply to pornography.

Barry Goldwater, running for president in '64, drew on the counsel of two young legal allies, William Rehnquist and Robert Bork, to characterize the bill as a "threat to the very essence of our basic system" and a "usurpation" of states' rights that "would force you to admit drunks, a known murderer or an insane person into your place of business".

This morning, as soon as the Leon County Courthouse opened, the Bush team filed three strongly worded briefs in objection to Judge Lewis's order, calling it a "naked usurpation of legislative authority" that deprived Mr. Bush of his due-process rights.

The so-called Crisis of the Third Century describes the turmoil of murder, usurpation and in-fighting that followed the murder of the Emperor Alexander Severus in 235 AD.

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