Word: usurpative
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...strategy is becoming clear: run against the recall effort itself. His private polling has shown voters turn against it when they realize it will cost upwards of $30 million. Davis will also attack the recall as an effort by defeated G.O.P. members to usurp power and carry out a far-right agenda. But while an array of Republicans are lining up to get on the ballot (the top vote getter will replace Davis if he loses), the key for Davis is to keep members of his party on the sidelines. "If a solid Democrat files, it would be a vote...
...Giscard even wanted to set up a new body - the European Congress - made up of national and European parliamentarians. The Congress was intended to meet only occasionally to debate constitutional and policy issues. But many M.E.P.s, the only E.U. representatives directly elected by voters, worried that the Congress would usurp some of their roles. "This [plan] would undermine the checks and balances in place among E.U. institutions," the Commission declared in a strongly worded statement. "It could lead to unequal treatment of member states and this would jeopardize the trust between them." Virulent opposition to the plan prompted a classic...
While it would be wrong for an academic department to require students to travel in areas where their health may be at risk, it is not appropriate for Harvard to usurp the role of the government and implement a de facto ban on travel to affected countries. The University should work with the relevant public health officials to insure the safety of students who are traveling to infected areas as well as the safety of the Harvard community...
...ferocity and radical distortions of a single canvas, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso would turn every other artist into cannon fodder and take from Matisse the leadership role within the avant-garde. Georges Braque and Andre Derain, onetime Fauvists, defected to Picasso's camp. In time Picasso would even usurp Matisse's position in the affections--and worse, in the collection--of Matisse's once devoted patron Gertrude Stein...
...payoff is potentially huge, given that the mainland's TV ad market was a hefty $2.4 billion last year. Yet the chances of China contributing to Star Group's bottom line any time soon seem faint. That's because China's authoritarian government, fearing that foreign-produced entertainment will usurp domestic competitors and that racy shows will corrupt the citizenry, severely limits the distribution of Western programming...