Unlike most other supreme courts, the Law Lords will not have the power to rule laws invalid or unconstitutional.
In fact, the American constitution nowhere explicitly gives the Supreme Court the power to rule laws invalid because of their unconstitutionality.
The European Court of Justice could be given the power to rule on whether states had stuck to the rule, but not be able to reject national budgets.
Waldman points out that the SEC still has the power to act under rule 10b-5, but shareholders, investors, etc. do not.
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Three years later, a coalition government of the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party, which had also put Hindutva on its central agenda, came into power in Maharashtra to rule for the next five years.
The LDP enjoyed more than 50 years of almost unbroken rule but lost power to the DPJ in 2009.
Indian laws allow an elected federal government to recommend the dismissal of a state government, but leaves the power to impose direct federal rule on the president, the country's constitutional head.
Garner and his team face a daunting task which ranges from restoring power and water to establishing the rule of law in the war-shattered country.
About twenty years ago, there was a common belief that military power meant little, that the soft power of Germany and Japan would rule the world.
Milosevic was arrested in April and has been detained in Belgrade pending an investigation into allegations of corruption and abuse of power during his 13-year rule.
The rule targets equipment that power plants and manufacturing facilities use to draw in water to prevent overheating, even though those intake systems are not harmful to human health or water quality.
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The African National Congress governments that have been in power since the institution of majority rule in 1993 are credited with admirable, some say excessive, moderation in adjusting the economic imbalance between the races.
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Last September, a UN-backed government came to power, after eight years of transitional rule, bringing some stability to some areas.
Army rule shifted the centre of power further from them still, for the army is largely Punjabi and Pathan, and those groups reaped the benefits of soldierly rule.
Opposition to Saleh's rule led to the presidential power-transfer agreement.
This sense of having a mandate encouraged Morales to exercise power based on the simple principle of majority rule.
He rule that the minister had no power to allow the appeal to go ahead before a panel of medical experts.
The average Eurosceptic in Britain has acquired an impression of constant rule changes that always increase the power of EU institutions.
Late Chilean military leader Augusto Pinochet wanted to hold on to power when he lost a referendum on his rule in 1988, newly declassified documents in the US suggest.
But whereas that proved largely a smokescreen for continued royal rule, Mr Benkirane has the power to choose his own ministers, present his own budget and promote his own legislation.
Reduced to their essence, the endangered order can be defined as a government of, by and for all the people, one rooted in the principle that power must be exercised, pursuant to the rule of law, in representative and accountable ways.
"The no-girls-allowed rule keeps women from accessing that power where they can conduct business and rise in professional development and create their own power networks, " said Veronica Arreola, assistant director of the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
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Musharraf stepped down from power in 2008 because of growing discontent with his rule, especially among the legal community because of his decision to dismiss judges.
The betting is that the LDP, which lost power in 2009 after decades of near-unbroken rule, may win the most seats and get the first chance at forming a governing coalition.
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The U.S. and allied governments also are concerned about developments in Syria, worried that the Brotherhood or a more radical form of Sunni power could gain power as President Bashar al-Assad's rule weakens.
He noted that many people in the eastern part of the country feel marginalized after decades of underrepresentation and neglect during the rule of strongman Moammar Gadhafi, whose power base was centered in the capital city of Tripoli.
Although the parties likely to assume power doubtless feel threatened by extremism, the post-electoral situation will force them to focus time and energy on more elemental things: reestablishing civilian rule after nearly a decade out of power, reversing many of Musharraf's recent actions, perhaps seeking his ouster, sorting out differences among themselves, and dealing with pent-up public frustrations about lack of services and other grievances.
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