So they included in the Constitution a Congress and a Bill of Rights to curb executive power.
Legal efforts to curb the power of unions stretching back to Taft-Hartley have weakened and corporatized organized labor.
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But unemployment is rising, which will curb spending power, and those still in work are likely to save more.
It would curb the power of judges to deliver sentences manifestly at odds with the letter of the law.
Abdullah has moved to curb the power of hardline clerics by, amongst other things, limiting the fatwas they can issue.
King Abdullah has moved to curb the power of hardline clerics by, amongst other things, limiting the fatwas they can issue.
This is to curb the power of big landowners in the east, some of whom gained their land illegally from military governments.
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Beinisch claimed that the attempts by Israel's elected leaders to curb judicial power places the country on a slippery slope whose ultimate end is to destroy the values that underpin Israeli democracy.
But, for another other camp, involving Europe's left (and more or less the entire French political class), the point of Europe is to keep globalisation at bay, or at least curb its power.
Right-to-work laws would not curb that monopoly power, he said, and therefore could not be justified.
Lord Wakeham, knowing this, has presumably succumbed to the pragmatic argument that Mr Blair would never accept an elected upper house because of the way it would curb his own power.
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Congress's exclusive power of the purse is the strongest such curb.
Customers sometimes take out their anger on the local gas station as if it had the power to create stability in the Middle East or curb speculation in oil markets.
But these environmental safeguards will also curb Belo Monte's capacity to generate power, which will vary with the flow of the Xingu.
That larger war has some lawmakers drafting a plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions, others pushing for more nuclear power, and still more looking for developments in "clean coal" production.
Earnings, bolstered by overseas strength, should help power chemical stocks in the long run, and while a stronger dollar could curb profitability, fat yields and a strong technical picture is producing good synthesis with traders.
In both countries water and sewerage systems need to be vastly expanded, and governments in both countries are also coming under intense public pressure to curb what are often appalling levels of local pollution from factories and power plants.
The Knesset's efforts to pass laws that would curb the Court's now unlimited powers are simply attempts to place minimal legal checks on judicial power.
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