This is coercion, an usurpation of personal autonomy, and deeply destructive of human freedom. |
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Perhaps the most commonly narrated Spanish usurpation of a Miskitu toponym is the colonial name referring to the Moskitia itself, Taguzgalpa. |
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The dominance often leads to a usurpation of the political power officially vested in government. |
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Apart from elaborating the ongoing judicial usurpation on these issues, the conservative voice seems to have become muffled. |
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This is another massive usurpation of local control of public schools, draped in the faux fabric of federal accountability. |
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As each of four sets is pushed to centre stage, the garden's usurpation of the kitchen is delightfully revealed. |
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The Government, on behalf of the people, will not tolerate the usurpation of the functions of any of the institutions of the State by any individual or group. |
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Again, this is a usurpation of either the role of the agency or the role of the Congress, or a usurpation of the roles of both. |
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That is why the people should control the governments which pose a danger of usurpation of their rights. |
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The more recent the despoliation and usurpation, the more strongly felt was the injustice. |
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And now we are having a brazen usurpation of constitutional power by the Senate to protect their entitlements. |
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These obligations discourage a naked usurpation of power by judges. |
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Shareholder primacy puts an end to the usurpation of power that has afflicted managerial capitalism. |
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It is an indivisible, incommunicable, inalienable right, regardless of the length of its usurpation. |
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To place such a judicial limit on the clear and unambiguous wording of the statute is a usurpation of the legislative function of Parliament. |
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They were acquisitive and attempted to build up their territories by usurpation, inheritance, marriage treaties, and escheats. |
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But to ensure that producers and consumers get a fair deal, these products will need to be protected against usurpation. |
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In recent months some al-Salems have quietly protested against what they see as a looming usurpation of their rights. |
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Still, civil war, royal assassinations, and usurpation were commonplace, and warlords and great landholders assumed wide discretionary powers. |
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Thus, Charlemagne's assumption of the imperial title was not a usurpation in the eyes of the Franks or Italians. |
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Consequently, the fall of the dynasty following Zhu Wen's usurpation led to an era of fragmentation. |
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His semiannual plundering expeditions in the north not only brought many slaves to Cordóba but also helped to divert the Muslims from his usurpation of power. |
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Native British troops were hired to support the usurpation of Magnus Maximus, who is said to have settled them in Armorica. |
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Following Jugurtha's usurpation of the throne of Numidia, a loyal ally of Rome since the Punic Wars, Rome felt compelled to intervene. |
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For an enormous sum of money Maximilian not only bestowed upon Ludovico the title of duke of Milan in 1494, legitimizing his usurpation, but also married Bianca Maria, Gian Galeazzo's sister. |
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The defeat had a hugely demoralizing effect on Soviet workers, helping to pave the way for the usurpation of political power by a conservative, nationalist bureaucracy. |
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The traditions of sadistic brutality originate from the NKVD, the Soviet-era secret police, and are now serving corruption and political usurpation. |
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Without that debate, and the legitimacy it alone offers to a specific ordering of space, the purely private realm is mere usurpation, an act of aggression against those less fortunate. |
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In some analyses, globalization is just a continuation of colonialism, which refers to the historical invasion, occupation, usurpation and exploitation of a people's lands and resources by others. |
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One of those facts is that the election tallying process was so flawed that we cannot tell who won and Kibaki's usurpation of the presidency is not backed up by popular will. |
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My country never consented to that act of usurpation, which was consolidated later with the implantation of a foreign population and the systematic ban on continental Argentines settling or owning lands in the Islands. |
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Quality labels help promote diversification of agricultural production, protect product trade names against usurpation and imitation, assist consumers by informing them about the specific characteristics of the products. |
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Some health professionals minimize the importance of recordkeeping by suggesting that it detracts from the real practice of dental hygiene and that it signifies the usurpation of lawyers over the profession. |
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By preventing legislative usurpation in the beginning, the bicameral legislature avoids executive usurpation in the end. |
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Southern kings had never ruled the north, and his usurpation was met with outrage by the Northumbrians, who had always resisted southern control. |
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They never depart an iota from the authentic formulas of tyranny and usurpation. |
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It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. |
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His son Constantine IV succeeded him, a brief usurpation in Sicily by Mezezius being quickly suppressed by the new emperor. |
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The treaty made by the Lords with England at Ardtornish in 1462 was used as evidence of their usurpation of royal power. |
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A spate of recent incidents underscores the dangers of government usurpation of religious symbols and phrases. |
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Jugurtha impudently bribed the Romans into accepting his usurpation. |
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Historically the punishment for the usurpation of arms were severe. |
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Females of Polistes Latreille, 1802 paper wasps have the options of independent or cooperative breeding, and usurpation in a few species in temperate climates. |
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He struck at the House of Lords in its usurpation of the Money Bills. |
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The Emancipation Proclamation was wildly controversial in its time, some arguing that it was an unconstitutional usurpation and others that it was an inadequate half measure. |
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Welsh legend relates that before launching his usurpation, Maximus made preparations for an altered governmental and defence framework for the beleaguered provinces. |
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This was done to prevent a military commander having too many units under his command and using them to order a rebellion, such as that usurpation by Carausius. |
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The commander of the punitive expedition, General Lothar von Trotha, was eventually relieved and reprimanded for his usurpation of orders and the cruelties he inflicted. |
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In the United States, such commerce may constitute actionable fraud rather than criminal usurpation of an exclusive right to use of any given title by an established class. |
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