:" On this account I have not the power, nor do I dare, to approve the objects of your mission until I can consult our gods by the casting of lots and until I can enquire the will of the people in regard to this matter.

The governor has a duty to enforce state laws, and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the New York State Legislature, to convene the legislature, and to grant pardons, except in cases of treason and impeachment.

In this case the debate centers on the suitability of the individual for office, not a judgement on them when appointed, and does not involve the power to reject or approve proposed cabinet members en bloc, so it is not accountability in the sense understood in a parliamentary system.

Free preaching was granted conditionally: the Church hierarchy had to approve and place priests, and the power of the bishop must be considered.

Gregory had no power to compel the English king to an alteration in his ecclesiastical policy, so he chose to ignore what he could not approve, and even considered it advisable to assure him of his particular affection.

Moreover, during this time, the power of the premier to approve the president's appointments and the power of the Legislative Yuan to confirm the president's choice of premier was removed establishing the president as the more powerful position of the two.

The Assembly has the power to decide the direction of domestic and foreign policy ; approve or amend the constitution ; declare war on another state ; ratify or annul international treaties ; elect the President of the Republic, the Supreme Court, and the Attorney General and his or her deputies ; and control the activity of state radio and television, state news agency, and other official information media.

In November 1957, Genovese called a meeting of Cosa Nostra bosses in Apalachin, New York to approve his takeover of the Luciano family and to establish his national power.

However, Iturbide did not approve as it restricted the power of the landed elite.

A Statutory Instrument is used when an Act of Parliament passed after 1947 confers a power to make, confirm or approve delegated legislation on:

Martin's faction carried the day with support from opposition parties, and many breakaway Liberals who resented their relatively weak power related to that of their Leader-and thus wanted the power to select chairs that he did not approve of, without being clearly identified and thus subject to his retaliation.

In spite of the fear of many senators that Prodi's defeat would return Silvio Berlusconi to power, the Senate did not approve a motion backing Prodi's government foreign policy, two votes shy of the required majority of 160.

Despite these dictatorial measures, a majority of Americans approve of them, believing them to be necessary though painful steps to restore American power.

It had no true power in its own right — unlike the English parliament it was not required to approve royal taxation or legislation — instead it functioned as an advisory body to the king, primarily by presenting petitions from the various estates and consulting on fiscal policy.

Each municipality has the constitutional power to approve its own laws and collects taxes and also receives funds from the state and federal governments.

The governor has the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Texas Legislature, and to convene the legislature.

The pater familias had the power to approve or reject marriages of his sons and daughters ; however, an edict of the Emperor Caesar Augustus provided that the pater familias could not withhold that permission lightly.

I cordially approve of the pressure of public opinion being applied, through this House or through the Press, to railway managers, to compel them to consider both the safety of the public and the safety of their men ; but if we endeavour in this matter — as we have, in my opinion, sadly too often endeavoured in the past — to give Government officials the power to decide what is the precise form of appliances which shall be used in connection with railways, we shall not be providing for the safety of the public or the safety of railway servants

Moreover, during this time, the power of the premier to approve the president's appointments and the power of the Legislative Yuan to confirm the president's choice of premier was removed ( out of fears that the Democratic Progressive Party would one day gain control of the legislature ), clearly establishing the president as the more powerful position of the two.

First and foremost, as commissioner, Chandler had the power to void Robinson's contract, but he chose to approve it.

The 60 Assembly members in the National Assembly scrutinise the Welsh Government ’ s decisions and policies ; hold Ministers to account ; approve budgets for the Welsh Government ’ s programmes ; and have the power to enact Assembly Measures on certain matters.

Article V vests the legislative power of the state in the General Assembly, while reserving to the people the power to propose, approve, and reject both laws and amendments to the state Constitution by initiatives or referendums.

There are 12 power events ( such as standby, suspend and resume requests, and low battery notifications ), plus OEM-defined events, that can be sent from the APM BIOS to the operating system.

They may have authority to veto a bill until the houses of the legislature have reconsidered it, and approved it a second time ; reserve a bill to be signed later, or suspend it indefinitely ( generally in states with royal prerogative ; this power is rarely used ); refer a bill to the courts to test its constitutionality ; refer a bill to the people in a referendum.

For example, when the operating system's lock library is used and a thread tries to acquire an already acquired lock, the operating system will suspend the thread using a context switch and swaps it out with another thread that is ready to be run, or could put that processor into a low power state if there is no other thread that can be run.

Madison was given the power to suspend nonintercourse with either Britain or France should one of these countries remove her regulations against American commerce.

But the legislative state of emergency does not suspend basic human rights nor does it grant the executive branch any exceptional power.

There are no emergency powers such as those used by the Reichspräsident in the Reichstag Fire Decree of 1933 to suspend basic rights and to remove communist members of the Reichstag from power, an important step for Hitler's Machtergreifung.

The old guard returned Mutalibov to power in May 1992, but less than a week later his efforts to suspend scheduled presidential elections and ban all political activity prompted the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party ( PFP ) to organize a resistance movement and take power.

* Improved power management and suspend / resume operations: The OEM version of Windows Me supports OS-controlled ACPI S4 sleep state ( hibernation ) and other power management features without manufacturer-supplied drivers.

As a result, many broadcast stations are required as a condition of license to reduce their broadcasting power significantly ( or use directional antennas ) after sunset, or even to suspend broadcasting entirely during nighttime hours.

The mayor is the chief executive officer of the executive branch and has the power to prepare an annual budget, appoint heads of departments with city council confirmation, remove or suspend city employees, enforce city ordinances, and grant pardons for city violations with council approval.

Taney asserted that the president was not authorized to suspend habeas corpus, observing that none of the Kings of England exercised such power.

The legislature may have the power to impeach the individual, remove them, or suspend them from office for a period of time.

: Thou shalt preserve them to suspend from thy neck, whichever thou wilt, on the day and hour wherein thou wast born, after which thou shalt take heed to name every day ten times, the Name which is hung from thy neck, turning towards the East, and thou mayest be assured that no enchantment or any other danger shall have power to harm thee.

In May 1810, Macon's Bill No. 2 was passed, giving the president power to suspend trade with either Great Britain or France if the other should cease to interfere with United States commerce.

The joint German-Soviet concerns first led to signing, in May 1921, of a treaty between the two nations under which Germany recognized the Soviet regime as the only legitimate government of Russia, and agreed to suspend relations with all other groups which still claimed power.

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2, of the U. S. Constitution grants Congress, and not the president, the power to suspend the right of habeas corpus during a period of rebellion or invasion.

Pressing the power button on the computer did not turn it off, but put the machine into a " suspend " mode.

The Constitution also grants the president the power to declare a state of emergency during times of war or civil unrest and suspend civil liberties during the emergency as necessary, with the exception of habeas corpus.

The distinction between article 16 and the 1955 Act concerns mainly the distribution of powers: whereas in article 16, the executive power basically suspend the regular procedures of the Republic, the 1955 Act permits a twelve-day state of emergency, after which a new law extending the emergency must be voted by the Parliament.

In 1916, the United States Supreme Court, in the Killets Decision, held that a Federal Judge ( Killets ) was without power to suspend a sentence indefinitely.

Therefore, should the chief executive or the other branch of government or all branches together act to suspend The Constitution under a rule of martial law, all power granted to government would be cancelled and differed back to the granting power.

Habermas distinguishes explicitly between factual consensus, i. e. the beliefs that happen to hold in a particular community, and rational consensus, i. e. consensus attained in conditions approximating an " ideal speech situation ", in which inquirers or members of a community suspend or bracket prevailing beliefs and engage in rational discourse aimed at truth and governed by the force of the better argument, under conditions in which all participants in discourse have equal opportunities to engage in constative ( assertions of fact ), normative, and expressive speech acts, and in which discourse is not distorted by the intervention of power or the internalization of systematic blocks to communication.