Word: usurpative
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...trustworthy, and a thorough briefer who rarely interjected his own viewpoints." But as Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser from December 1985 to November 1986, Poindexter told his questioners last week, he broke that pattern. In February 1986, after just two months on the job, he decided to usurp the authority of his Commander in Chief...
Empowering a student-faculty committee to make findings of fact and recommendations about charges against non-students would neither violate contract rights of employees, usurp the authority of administrators nor involve the committee in judgments that are substantively different from those they would make in cases where the accused happen to be students. It would, however, indicate that students at Harvard also have rights as well as responsibilities and would finally assure them of a fair hearing for their grievances...
...plot centers around a series of coups in an unnamed archduchy, in which increasingly more ruthless leaders usurp the throne. lonesco takes this all-to-obvious premise--e.g. that power corrupts--and revels in its inanity. While facing execution for leading an unsuccessful rebellion, Candor (Glen Whitney) declares that he is a historical dead-end, and that his "rebellion was necessary, if only to prove I'm a criminal." Much of the humor of the play arises from the hackneyed, emotionally-inappropriate intellectualizations in which the characters are endlessly engaged...
...played in the church by national bishops' conferences. Malone emphasized their importance to the church in collective policymaking, and argued that the teaching authority of the conferences, on certain issues and in cooperation with the Pope, should be recognized by Rome. Law, however, warned that national conferences should never usurp the powers of individual bishops...
...this unhappy Utopia began in September, when Ma Anand Sheela, Rajneesh's chief aide, broke away from the commune with her own small group of stalwarts. Shortly after, Rajneesh announced that Sheela had plotted the murder of his physician, tapped telephones, and tried to usurp his authority...