It has everything to do with usurping the victim's power.
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That would be usurping the power of the individual voter.
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But Brennan unilaterally usurping Robert Mueller's brief is not the problem.
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Both, after all, had their eyes on usurping the established order.
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Here the right and honorable thing basically involves usurping his girlfriend's usurpation.
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Narratively, that's Becky inside her, a ghost who is usurping her soul.
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Now homeless, it's settled into the outer reaches of the usurping galaxy.
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They accuse Maduro's government of "usurping power," and they want new elections.
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But there is no serious argument that President Donald Trump is "usurping" powers.
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"The president, in my judgement, is usurping congressional authority to appropriate funds," Sen.
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They cast the stream protection rule as harming industry and usurping state rights.
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This was seen by the Trump administration as usurping the power of Congress.
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"[Nynas] remains under the influence of Nicolas Maduro's usurping regime," the statement read.
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He accused Maduro of usurping power and promised to create a transitional government.
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As of right now, Endgame is around $42 million ($2.74) short of usurping Avatar.
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"By continuing to stay in office, Nicolás Maduro is usurping the presidency," he wrote.
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After all, Ethereum is the first cryptocurrency to really have a chance at usurping bitcoin.
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Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk has issued dire warnings about technology usurping human jobs.
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It is very plain to see that black people and immigrants are not usurping power.
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Scenario E, becoming sentient and building a mech suit with a view to usurping mankind.
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Mike Pence: The president usurping power and end-running Congress is "a profound mistake." pic.twitter.
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During periods of chaos, criminals, including terrorists have a greater chance of usurping unsupervised systems.
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But that was because of his original sin, which was the July press conference, usurping power.
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Critics say it is unnecessary and goes too far, wiping out jobs and usurping state rights.
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The all-devouring composer was usurping the poet's function as the mouthpiece of humanity's primal myths.
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The Carter household was crowned Cutest Family On Earth, usurping the royals' from their throne of cuteness.
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Mark Hertling said on CNN that usurping the military justice system will hurt the military as a whole.
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With the release of "Formation," Beyoncé went from manipulating the pop culture music industry machine to usurping it.
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Mr. Clark also ran afoul of the school board, which accused him of usurping its authority over expulsions.
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They hid in the forests, usurping locals who made their living mining gold and chopping trees for wood.
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Its charm lies in usurping any and all expectations about politics, love, and even the reliability of transportation.
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Services like these can develop into a main point of contact with individual customers, potentially usurping traditional banks.
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It temporarily became the second-largest cryptocurrency by market value last month, usurping ethereum, after a huge rally.
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Facial piercing trends are shifting too, with lip piercings becoming more popular and the nostril slowly usurping the septum.
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Lay waste with this line, before usurping them and freeing their people from the tyranny of fragile male egos.
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Or rather, he may be incredibly hot and crispy after the dragon queen is done with his usurping ass.
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Somewhere between beige and rose, with a modern purple undertone, mauve lips are slowly usurping classic nude and red.
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He should not be usurping the authority and responsibility of the national security advisor or the secretary of State.
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Could we look forward to programming these machines to make our jobs better without fear of them usurping us?
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The tropical world of Karnaca is collapsing into ruin at the hands of a usurping witch and a corrupt duke.
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The tropical world of Karnaca is collapsing into ruin at the hands of a usurping witch and a corrupt duke.
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After raising $2.1 million in seed funding, today Polygram launches its iOS app with dreams of usurping Instagram and Snapchat.
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Federer and Djokovic are tied, 22-1003, in career meetings, with Djokovic catching up since usurping Federer in the rankings.
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Mom not only wants to control the estate, but she's asking the court to block Anzaldo from "usurping" her efforts.
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The Dash is closer to usurping some of these than others, but it's a long way from replacing any one.
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Adoption of procedures usurping public participation, as proposed by the House, would result in major public pushback against active management.
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Some Amish elders and clergy regard buggy safety initiatives as usurping God's role in overseeing their safety, Sergeant Kennett said.
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He patiently (and fruitlessly) argued against the emergency declaration, which he sees as usurping congressional authority to splinter Senate Republicans.
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A House of legitimized Targaryen bastards, the Blackfyres rebelled against the crown three times in hopes of usurping true-born Targaryens.
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Recently, AR-enhanced magazine covers have demonstrated how digital technology can honor and reinvigorate traditional analog experiences without usurping them completely.
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YEREVAN (Reuters) - An Armenian court ordered former President Robert Kocharyan detained on Friday on charges of usurping power, his lawyer said.
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The Bulls had lost in the playoffs to the Orlando Magic the previous spring, usurping Jordan just months into his comeback.
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Many parenting experts and psychologists recoil at the idea of parents usurping this rite of passage in the name of expediency.
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"He is usurping congressional authority," Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a veteran member of the Appropriations Committee, said in an interview.
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Why it matters: Detroit frets constantly about Silicon Valley usurping its claim as the current and future home of the auto industry.
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Conservatives complain that, in effect, this lets agencies make laws as well as enforce them, usurping power that properly belongs to Congress.
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Carma tested the consumer model but found there was friction from usurping the place of primacy for drivers from the dealers themselves.
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It would seem that Pope Francis objects to the state usurping the role of the parents to determine their child's best interests.
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And before this latest coup attempt, I felt the situation had gotten out of control in that Erdogan was usurping political power.
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"The Hollywood studio at issue here is grotesquely and irresponsibly usurping parental authority," the organization's president, Tim Winter, said in a statement.
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It has regained growth momentum this year with affordable, innovative products and international expansion, usurping Samsung as the largest vendor in India.
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Now that is the very reason President Trump cited for firing Comey, remember back in May 2017, usurping the Attorney General&aposs authority.
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If you're going to burden yourself with a lifetime of crippling debt, what's the point in usurping finals revision with Black Cherry VKs?
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"(The move) is the culmination of the crime of usurping Palestine and displacing the Palestinian people," SANA said, quoting a Foreign Ministry source.
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Guaido in January invoked Venezuela's constitution to assume an interim presidency, arguing Maduro is usurping the presidency based on a fraudulent 2018 election.
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By closing these infamous loopholes, Obama is restoring the integrity of the Brady Act, not usurping the powers of a nearly inert Congress.
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The authors didn't seek to answer that question nor does Perry have any intention of usurping states' rights, an Energy Department official said.
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High-tech is usurping the place once held by Israel's founding myths, the ones about the kibbutz collectives and making the desert bloom.
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On the immigration action, the states contend Obama exceeded the powers granted to him by the Constitution by usurping the authority of Congress.
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"He's usurping power and resetting term limits, but dumping the responsibility on the Constitutional Court," an opposition politician, Lyubov Sobol, posted on Twitter.
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But when that prosperity is threatened, they complain about blacks or immigrants who are, in their minds, usurping their place in the economy.
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In its push to create a new state, the regional government is already breaking the law, defying the courts and usurping state powers.
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"The RHNDA would prevent the interests and bottom line of institutions from usurping the health and well‐being of those in need of care."
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He can hardly have enjoyed the past few months, especially not after the announcement that Pep Guardiola would be usurping him in the summer.
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But not so here in London, England, where on Saturday, Pride in London found a very different group usurping its lead: anti-trans protesters.
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This reflexive partisanship has been accompanied by an overall decline in oversight activity even as members of both parties complain about presidents usurping power.
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These enclosed sections of seasides serve as sunny stages where foreigners' unchecked desires are on full view, their bodies usurping control of the landscape.
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Among the accusations: offering services free of charge, discriminating against ruling party officials, usurping the role of the commune clerk and holding meetings on Saturdays.
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At a rally on Wednesday in the east of the capital Caracas that drew hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, Guaido accused Maduro of usurping power.
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The risks that the coup council took, for the sake of usurping complete power, undermine national peace and would, eventually, affect regional and international peace.
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On August 7, District Court Judge Taylor Swain dismissed the Government of Puerto Rico's claim that the Financial Oversight Board is usurping its policymaking authority.
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His appointment demonstrates that the majority party isn't interested in the facts, but they are interested in usurping the authority given to the American people.
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The monument holds the Guinness World Record as the world's largest high-heel shoe-shaped structure, usurping a 6-foot-tall bootie by Kenneth Cole.
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It's more likely, experts said, that Congress takes on trying to hold the administration accountable for usurping its ability to appropriate funds under the Antideficiency Act.
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At home and internationally, he saw opportunities to expand his influence -- usurping the US in Syria for example -- and moved swiftly to capitalize on these openings.
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One of the cult members is an obsessively jealous living mannequin named Charlotte (a regular character on Poppy's YouTube channel), who dreams of usurping Poppy's fame.
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"These may be overt protests, but in bureaucracies, there are a lot of behind-the-scenes and under-the-radar usurping of presidential power," she said.
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Moslem leaders often opine that Islam is a peaceful faith and Jihadist terrorists are usurping the banner of Islam to achieve their violent and political agendas.
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Washington, which calls Maduro a corrupt dictator who is usurping power after rigging a 2018 presidential election, recognizes opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's rightful president.
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Being of Jewish origin and coming from the Russian-speaking part of the country, he undermines the Kremlin's narrative about Ukrainian fascists usurping power in Kiev.
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Last year Fidelity Charitable, a DAF supplier linked to the mutual-fund group, was crowned the biggest charity in America, usurping United Way, a traditional non-profit.
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Instead, he alienated millions who accused him of usurping unlimited powers, imposing the Brotherhood's conservative brand of Islam and mismanaging the economy, all of which he denied.
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And I found very clear evidence of the ways that fears of immigrants, fears that minority people were usurping resources, were shaping policy agendas in these regions.
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This should give conservatives confidence that if confirmed to the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh will ensure that executive agencies stop usurping power that properly belongs to elected representatives.
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An argument that the State Supreme Court is usurping the Legislature's powers in an election case has echoes of the Supreme Court's 2000 decision in Bush v.
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But the governors of several large red states, including Arizona, Texas, and Florida, are largely leaving local officials to fight their own battles or usurping local authority.
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The state's Republican legislative leaders urged the justices to intervene and overturn the ruling by the state court, which they accused of usurping the legislature's authority over redistricting.
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Grey Worm, like Missandei, has been loyal to Daenerys since her usurping of Astapor, and has risen through the ranks to become the leader of the Unsullied forces.
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Could that mean Bran could use his warg powers to control the new, scarier version of Viserion, successfully usurping the Night King's power and destroying the White Walkers?
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Puigdemont and the 12 members of the Catalan Cabinet will no longer be paid and could be charged with usurping others&apos functions if they refuse to obey.
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Combine that with the fact that no one has (so far as we know) replaced Dorne's usurping leader Ellaria Sand — who will rot in a King's Landing dungeon.
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By putting checks and balances in place to make the consolidation of power by one branch more difficult, the Founders showed their concern with one branch usurping another.
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Li Xuerui, the Olympic champion who also landed the German Open women's singles title, is seeded third and offers China its best hope of usurping Marin's current dominance.
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Australia's government-owned National Broadband Network is usurping Telstra's status as the country's monopoly telecoms wholesaler, and will replace Telstra's copper lines with fibre-optic by about 2021.
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The transfers infuriated Democrats — and this year, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee — who argued the Trump administration was usurping Congress' power of the purse.
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"IBM, a relic of once-great 20th Century technology firms, has now resorted to usurping the intellectual property of companies born this millennium," Groupon said in its lawsuit.
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U.S. sanctions - designed to oust Maduro, whom Washington calls a corrupt dictator usurping power after rigging a 2018 election - block any U.S. financial institution from dealing with PDVSA.
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Planting trees might sound like innocuous and progressive environmental restoration, but these plantations are usurping communities' lands, and further alienating many of India's 150 million forest dwelling people.
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In addition to the sedition charges, Spain&aposs government has said the fired leaders could be charged with usurping others&apos functions if they attempt to carry on working.
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United States, the high court struck down most of a controversial state law targeting undocumented immigrants, for usurping the federal government's constitutional power to set the nation's immigration policy.
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Ortega's public change of heart came in March when she condemned the Supreme Court's usurping of powers from the opposition-controlled congress, a move that was quickly partially overturned.
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And like Richard, he finds himself pitted against a usurping Bolingbroke, who understands that for the monarchy to survive, it has to accommodate changing times and the juggernaut of realpolitik.
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The artists all share a common, cute-infused aesthetic, albeit one with a sinister streak—eerie transfigurations of monstrous women or claustrophobic tableaus of femininity usurping the pervasive, passive ideal.
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If Kovacs is to be believed, the Chamber's primary interest in the RAA is that of a scholar of constitutional law, troubled by federal agencies' alleged usurping of congressional authority.
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It was a familiar war cry on the segregationist right: An activist court was usurping the power of the state's duly elected officials to solve the problem on their own.
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Opponents say the procedure violates the Constitution by usurping the role of the federal courts, violating the separation of powers and denying patent holders the right to a jury trial.
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First-past-the-post generously rewards the two largest parties, providing a big incentive for Labour and the Conservatives to stamp out smaller challengers, lest they end up usurping them.
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Rogen and Goldberg apparently aren't aware how controversial the original scene is, and how it's provoked thoughtful conversations about the long history of whites usurping credit for African-Americans' artistic accomplishments.
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Many Detroiters were furious that Mr. Orr, then a high-profile bankruptcy lawyer from Chevy Chase, Md., had been given a role with extraordinary power, usurping control from local elected officials.
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But two years and 10 Uncarrier events later, T-Mobile CEO John Legere is sounding less like a renegade and more like the mendacious suits he loves to pretend he's usurping.
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That leaves us with a question: Do even the well-funded startups mentioned earlier stand a chance of either usurping market dominance from corporate incumbents or at least joining their ranks?
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President Nicolás Maduro created a new constituent assembly filled with his cronies, usurping many of the powers of the National Assembly, which was properly elected and is controlled by the opposition.
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The central argument of the lawsuit is that the new law amounts to the federal government illegally usurping a core power of the states — deciding how to raise and spend money.
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US, that ruled that Congress had unconstitutionally delegated powers to the executive branch, putting the executive in the position of illegally usurping Congress's legislative powers rather than just enforcing the law.
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"The Republicans have been spending eight years complaining about the executive branch usurping legislative branch power and here's their first move from the new administration is to ignore us on something," Rep.
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Hamlet, no exception, is based on a Norse legend composed in the early 13th century, about a prince named Amleth who feigns madness to escape the wrath of his murderous, usurping uncle.
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In the late 1600s, England's intellectuals were searching for a new word to articulate the dramatic political shifts of their times, which involved messy power transitions and usurping, executing, and restoring kings.
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Success is evident in the Nashira Recycling Group, who are usurping the local council with their daily rubbish collections, and making enough money to expand the business and take on new employees.
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As a military man, you recognize the chief of staff role as one that anticipates, facilitates, and executes, without interfering with the chain of command or usurping the authority of those in it.
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Since 2009, according to court papers, activities carried out in Tianshi's name have been linked to 155 deaths and 2,781 cases of illegal activity (the company blames these on criminals usurping its name).
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If the Democratic race tightens, it could be that Hillary Clinton will be very happy that the party carved out this group, much as the Republicans may wish they had this usurping power.
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They oppose programs that offer free or reduced-price breakfasts and lunches, believing that schools have become part of the "nanny state" — another politically charged term — and are usurping the role of parents.
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Comey was criticized in that report for usurping the power of the attorney general in his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server for State Department business.
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"I think it really represents a shift toward political power and control usurping any kind of consideration and respect for how a democracy is supposed to work," Mr. Hintz said in an interview.
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Then-FBI Director James Comey received a magic weapon that, in his own mind, justified his usurping of the Justice Department's decision whether to prosecute Hillary Clinton or her aides in the email case.
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The letter castigates Comey for usurping the authority of his Justice Department bosses by announcing the conclusion of the Clinton investigation without seeking their approval, a criticism echoed by the inspector general last month.
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His next clash pits him against an EU Commission plan to resettle refugees across member states based on quotas, which Orban sees as an act of out-of-touch Brussels bureaucrats usurping national authority.
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Red Bull, the only team other than Mercedes to win a race this year, have made significant gains of late, usurping Ferrari as the German outfit's closest challengers following the last race at Hockenheim.
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When you decided to learn 3D technology 20 years ago, did you understand that the environment was such a masculinist one, and were you thinking about usurping it then for a more feminist project?
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When Brian France, part of the dynasty's third generation, took over in 2003, he was at the cusp of a national entertainment upset, with Nascar close to usurping football as America's most-watched sport.
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Walmart and Kmart competed with Toys"R"Us for the Nintendo market share, and eventually, big-box retailers (with Target usurping Kmart) and online outlets (first eToys, then Amazon) would prove the most difficult competition.
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"Jihad against the aggressive and usurping infidel army is a holy obligation upon our necks and our only recourse for re-establishing an Islamic system and regaining our independence," the Taliban said in a statement.
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Cris Dush (R) circulated a letter addressed to the state House on Monday saying that the five Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices behind the decision violated the state constitution by usurping authority from the state's constitution.
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If Trump is elected president, would a Democratic majority in the Senate, or even a Democratic minority (using the filibuster), easily confirm any nomination he made, which they would likely view as usurping Obama's rightful powers?
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Where herbs are often chosen to complement and flatter the ingredients they adorn, spices call attention to themselves, transforming and sometimes even usurping a dish, so it becomes a mere vehicle and excuse for spice itself.
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But as the movie would have it, she is choosing her own freedom and the maintenance of her station as queen over the possibility of some man — even Dudley, or one of her counselors — usurping that power.
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I vowed never to go back, but several years later I heard that people were usurping the land that had been abandoned, fencing off parcels and selling them, and that they were planning to take my property.
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Mr. Scorsese has done something similar — not by listening in illegally and publishing humiliating truths, as the F.B.I. did, but by usurping Chuckie's relationship with Mr. Hoffa, giving it to someone else and then broadcasting the untruth.
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That move, as you might expect, played a big part in the rise of Japan as a major force in the auto industry in the 1980s—and also led to the Japanese robotics industry usurping the American one.
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Conservative critics of the Voting Rights Act say that is as it should be — that the federal government has no business usurping the role of elections monitor that citizen advocates have long and effectively played in other states.
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Behind Chairman Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), the Rules Committee next week will take a closer look at what it calls the usurping of Congress's powers, as designated by the Constitution, by presidents of both parties stretching back decades.
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Conservatives have criticized liberal initiatives to expand the federal government's role — from the New Deal to civil rights to Medicare, Medicaid and environmental regulation to the Affordable Care Act — as usurping the responsibilities of state and local governments.
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" Added the homebuilder group, "The executive order provides direction to EPA and the Corps to reconsider the rule that dramatically extended the areas in which home builders are required to get permits, blatantly usurping state and local regulatory authority.
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Here's a video of a gigantic centipede usurping the original harbinger of sin: I didn't always hate the centipede, but The Centipede Incident of 2009 remedied my childhood ignorance and revealed the creature for the abyssal horror it is.
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Capture the Flag sneers and thrashes for 37 minutes, right down to its closer, "The Chalice and the Blade," in which the band takes a prehistorical approach to societal gender roles, with allusions to androcracy's barbaric usurping over gylany.
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While usurping Dalits' rights and damaging their livelihoods, Mr. Modi's government has tried to orchestrate a Dalit-friendly image by including the images and words of B.R. Ambedkar, the Dalit revolutionary and architect of India's Constitution, in its propaganda.
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As the problems with the B.Q.E. make evident, not to mention greater terrors of climate change, the city ought to dissuade motorists rather than accommodate them and yet the park, for example, was built with land-usurping parking spaces.
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Having previously been a star of the Croatian national team, his poor form – and a series of niggling injuries – saw Domagoj Vida and Vedran Ćorluka pair up in the centre of defence, usurping his starting position in the process.
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The show is divided into four thematic sections featuring video, painting, sculpture, and photography that question exoticized views of indigenous identity; linear, Western notions of time; corporate and state usurping of natural resources; and static, official accounts of history.
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For everyone worried about robots usurping humans in life and love—a legitimate concern when all of my vibrators make me come, minimum, five times faster than with a human—we're not quite there on the cunnilingus front... yet.
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In the lab, scientists tweak a specific gene to, say, make stoats only produce male offspring, and then they engineer a gene drive to force that gene to be passed along to all the offspring, usurping nature's 50-50 inheritance mix.
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What's left in the deal's wake is a new era of uncertainty—a vacuum of power in the Colombian countryside where the rebels once patrolled, as the government works to prevent new factions of organized crime from usurping the position.
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"Governor Newsom, who supported the failed initiative to end the death penalty in 2006, is usurping the express will of California voters and substituting his personal preferences via this hasty and ill-considered moratorium on the death penalty," she said.
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In the Soviet political tradition - which still dominates Uzbek politics - collective rule arrangements such as those which followed the deaths of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin have usually ended with one member usurping power and getting rid of rivals, sometimes physically.
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If the inspector general has found that James Comey basically gave reason to be fired by being insubordinate and usurping power from the department of justice, but the president mentioned that he wanted him to leave because of the Russia thing.
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He is deeply in love with Arthur and the chivalric ideal that Arthur represents (whether that love is romantic or platonic is left to the reader), and at first he resents Guinevere for usurping his place at Arthur's right hand.
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Last year, when bitcoin prices rose from their 2017 starting value of just under $1,123 to over $19,000 by mid-December, market chatter was that bitcoin was usurping gold's role as a store of value and alternative to fiat currencies.
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Its action is based on the true story of Anne's close-to-obsessive relationship with her courtier Lady Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz), and the usurping of the Queen's affections by a younger woman named Abigail Hill (Emma Stone).
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There also was immediate opposition to the proposals from one major lobbying group for European businesses, which said the initiative went too far by usurping the role of the national tax authorities and by forcing companies to reveal too much.
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The emergency declaration, invoked in part because of tensions with Iran, prompted a broad bipartisan pushback from lawmakers who were concerned not only about the war, but also about whether the Trump administration was usurping congressional authority to approve arms sales.
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"Implementation of this map would create a constitutional crisis where the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is usurping the authority of the legislative and executive branches," the leaders of the State Senate, Joe Scarnati, and the House, Mike Turzai, said in a statement.
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In announcing his decision at the time, Comey said "no reasonable prosecutor" would bring charges in the case, leading to criticism that he was usurping the role of the Justice Department, which reviews FBI findings to make decisions on whether to bring charges.
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H1Z1: King of the Kill is the most popular game in this genre — it even has a professional scene where players compete in tournaments for hundreds of thousands of dollars — but Battlegrounds may already be on its way to usurping H1Z1's throne.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - In the last decade, Jamaica, with Usain Bolt as the figurehead, has emerged as the world's dominant sprinting power, usurping the United States from the throne it occupied since the start of the modern Olympic Games in 1896.
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Among the many moral and political ambiguities of Shelley's novel is the question of whether Victor Frankenstein is to be blamed for creating the monster—usurping the power of God, and of women—or for failing to love, care for, and educate him.
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When you assert in a cover letter something to the effect of, "I'm uniquely qualified to succeed at this job," you are usurping the role of the hiring manager to make that judgment and you are claiming something that you can't really know.
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She moved from Kensington to Berkshire, which was reported as a "schism" between Harry and his older brother, Prince William, potentially as deadly as the feud between Richard II and his cousin Henry of Bolingbroke, which led to Henry usurping the throne.
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On Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch explored arguments raised by lawyers for the employers and the Justice Department that the court would be usurping the powers of Congress and the democratic process by stepping in.
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However, it criticized him for violating Justice Department policies and accused him of usurping the authority of Attorney General Loretta Lynch when in July 2016 he announced there would be no charges against Clinton for her email use as secretary of state.
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Legal experts have said Mr. Trump can muster serious arguments that he can declare a national emergency under current law, but it would almost surely prompt a court challenge from critics arguing that he is usurping two centuries of congressional control over spending.
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An Armenian court ordered former President Robert Kocharyan, who served from 1998 to 2008, detained last month on charges of usurping power and an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order during events after the 2008 elections when his ally Serzh Sarksyan became the next president.
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This would make it the largest bank by assets in the Middle East and Africa, usurping Qatar National Bank's 550 billion riyals ($151.1 billion) at the end of the first quarter and Standard Bank's 1.98 trillion South African rand ($128.2 billion) as of Dec.
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Jared Kushner's surprise visit to Iraq yesterday, breaking with Pentagon safety protocol by being announced before he'd even landed and usurping a job traditionally performed by the secretary of state, was further proof of his outsized role in his father-in-law's White House.
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The potency of your own presidency is ridiculed when thugs and barbaric criminals take it upon themselves to establish lawless fiefdoms, usurping the law and order on which this republic was built and upon which its continued existence depends, as they kill innocent lives.
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The DACA controversy demonstrates the wages of the "progressive" conceit that our ingenious constitutional system is obsolete, that modern problems are so unprecedentedly complex they demand extra-constitutional solutions — such as a president's usurping of congressional power, exactly the road to tyranny the Framers feared.
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Their outright refusal to play by the music industry's rules in the mid 90s hurt the band dramatically, in part because they were less visible, but also because it put Vedder in the driver's seat, usurping power from Gossard and Ament and sowing discord internally.
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It works like this: In the lab, scientists might tweak a desired gene to, say, make a mouse only bear male offspring and then engineer a gene drive to force that gene to be passed along to all its offspring, usurping nature's 50-50 inheritance mix.
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" The honesty is bold: "The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam.
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But with Orlagh Cassidy as Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, and Mr. Stickney as the usurping Claudius, the cast of nine — which includes the very funny Christian DeMarais as a dim and dudely Guildenstern — managed well in the face of obstacles like sound bleeds from outside the room.
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Mr. Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced the change at the Justice Department, both used the aggrieved language of anti-immigrant activists, arguing that those in the country illegally are lawbreakers who hurt native-born Americans by usurping their jobs and pushing down wages.
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So it is ironic that this week's debate over the EU withdrawal bill, formerly known as the Great Repeal Bill, should centre on claims that the executive is usurping parliamentary powers—even more so since David Davis, the Brexit secretary, for years fought hard against such government encroachment.
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"My sense is that Pope Francis first objects to the state usurping the role of the parents to determine their child's best interests," O. Carter Snead, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame and the director of its Center for Ethics and Culture, said in an email.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (R-Texas) as a tyrant who was usurping his constitutional authority.
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" In Federalist Paper No. 66, Alexander Hamilton indicated that the Founding Fathers saw the Senate's role as determining whether the president's nominee is qualified for the court, not usurping or halting the nominating process itself: "There will, of course, be no exertion of choice on the part of the Senate.
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WASHINGTON — In the summer of 1974, a young law student named Zoe Lofgren, working for a member of the House Judiciary Committee, drafted what she thought was an ill-advised article of impeachment charging President Richard M. Nixon with usurping the power of Congress by concealing the bombing of Cambodia.
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There's no reference to the first documented Africans in Jamestown, who worked as indentured servants in the tobacco fields and eventually became slaves, or of the slowly worsening relations between the English and the natives — due to the English's relentless usurping of the land — or of Pocahontas's capture for ransom in 1613.
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"Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceTrump adopts familiar mantra on possible recession: fake news The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters FEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud MORE: The president usurping power and end-running Congress is 'a profound mistake,'" Kristol wrote on Twitter.
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The report sharply criticized Comey for violating Justice Department policies and accused him of usurping the authority of then Attorney General Loretta Lynch when he held a news conference in July 2016 and announced there was insufficient evidence to charge Clinton with a federal crime over her use of a private server.
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Harper suggests you hone your communication skills with your boss — letting him or her know what you are doing, how you're getting it accomplished, and why you're spending your time on this project — you'll not only show your higher-up the respect he or she deserved, but "you'll ensure you aren't usurping authority," he says.
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In contrast to the Senate, where it is de rigueur for the party in the minority to stage a filibuster to delay a vote or force an issue onto the floor (as Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut did on Monday), nothing in the House rules permits a member to obstruct the proceedings by usurping the microphone.
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I think there is so much value in putting myself through the very difficult experiences of the character eight times a week because I think it communicates — on a macro-level, the human condition, and on a micro-level, third-generation malaise, self-loathing, the fear of immigrants usurping positions of power from hegemonic cultures like mine.
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That announcement -- without prior notice to his bosses at the Justice Department and, according to his critics, usurping the traditional role of prosecutors to review FBI recommendations in secret -- opened up sharp divides between Justice and FBI officials, and even within the Justice Department itself, where some officials have pushed for Attorney General Loretta Lynch to more forcefully assert her power over the FBI.
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Barr previously wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post entitled, "Trump made the right call on Comey," criticizing the former FBI director for flouting longstanding Justice Department protocols when he announced in July 2016 that he wouldn't recommend charges against Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified info during her time as secretary of state, usurping the role of the attorney general at the time.
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