Sentence examples for usurpation to from inspiring English sources

Then he thundered, "This cannot stand!" while joining James Baker and others to trot out the old segregationist vernacular of judicial usurpation to incite contempt for Florida's Democratic-appointed judges.

To avoid the possibility of local usurpations, to facilitate a more efficient collection of taxes and supplies, and to ease the enforcement of the law, Diocletian doubled the number of provinces from fifty to almost one hundred.

Although Ripley maintained that American "occupation" of Samoa was usurpation, he agreed to allow Pollock to govern unfettered and to provide him with copies of his letters.

Erdogan seeks to set in motion the slaughter of the people of Turkey's neighbors and the usurpation of what belongs to them to reestablish the "dark" lost empire he longs, or to divert the attention of his people from the demolition of whatever elements of democracy may still stand in Turkey by engaging his neighbors in dangerous provocations.

Across the ideological spectrum, the Supreme Court has a substantial stake in rejecting any suggestion that the power of judges "to say what the law is," in Chief Justice John Marshall's famous phrase, amounts to "usurpation".

Panic is no stranger to usurpation: even as he ran ICN, Panic served as Yugoslavia's Prime Minister for eight months in the stormy days of 1992 and 1993, before being ousted by apparent war-criminal Slobodan Milosevic.

Common sense and basic morality would tell you that spinning amounted to usurpation of a corporate opportunity and, based upon general principles and ordinary morality, it is wrongful.

Speaking during the Second Reading of the constitutional amendment bill, Minister for Law S. Jayakumar said the Government was taking this step because it was of the view that the courts' application of an objective test would amount to judicial usurpation of the executive's functions in matters pertaining to national security, which the judiciary is ill-equipped to deal with.

James Baker, speaking for George W. Bush, dubs the Florida justices' decision an illegal usurpation of authority amounting to a "judicial fiat" and threatens to summon the Florida Legislature to overrule the court.

In dividing power, Diocletian's aim was to avoid usurpations, or at least to stifle them quickly as in the attempt of Carausius, chief of the army of Britain, who was killed (293), as was his successor, Allectus (296), after a landing by Constantius.

In New York, aided by Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped draft the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 and included two Resolutions which protested against man's usurpation of rights relating to her position in church and to her role under God.