arrogation

NOUN
  1. seizure by the government
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How To Use arrogation In A Sentence

  • But once in a while people are brave and regather their energies in the face of further governmental arrogations of power.
  • The arrogation of such power to the judges would usurp those functions of government, which are controlled and distributed by powers whose authority is derived from the ballot box.
  • But I believe I catch your drift: another contented arrogation, another sneer. The Volokh Conspiracy » 13 States File Suit Against Health Care Reform
  • Everything he had done, things no other president in modern times had managed to do, had been vilified by Republicans as an arrogation of power that stole by degrees the liberty and property of the American people. O: A Presidential Novel
  • The judiciary's authority and independence was significantly impaired during the Abacha era by the military regime's arrogation of judicial power and prohibition of court review of its action.
  • An immense arrogation of moral supremacism, based upon selective data and a still more selective and tendentious reading of thatdata. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?”
  • Even the very term, pro bono — short for pro bono publico (literally, for good or for the public good) — is a misnomer and arrogation on the part of the too often self-admiring attorney and legalclass. The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
  • I shall call that the "arrogation" thesis inasmuch as, presumably, to make ourselves master of the sources of life is to arrogate to ourselves something we ought not to. Development and Negation VI: Contraception
  • There is no modern precedent in France for such an arrogation of emergency powers.
  • The arrogation of ideology illustrates that the neutrality and non-neutrality will inevitably integrated in social sciences.
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