| He describes the austerities he endured on the long road to ordination and the claims he arrogated to himself as a priest. |
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| The sad irony is that, so long as he arrogated the country's bear-hunting rights largely to himself, the bear population flourished. |
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| The Indonesian army has not faced any external threat since 1965 yet it has arrogated enormous powers to itself inside the country. |
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| For the dollar to fulfill the function to which it arrogated itself, winning this battle with gold was a life-and-death matter. |
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| Under the fiat money system the FED has arrogated unlimited powers to itself, namely, the power to print unlimited amounts of money. |
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| For what has been given in common for the use of all, you have arrogated to yourself. |
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| So it arrogated unto itself the override power in section 347, which has now led to the Bloc Québécois opposing this bill. |
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| That is to say, his picturing is a picturing of the relay of the graphic mode that calligraphy had long ago assumed and arrogated to itself. |
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| What is intriguing in the last part of the letter is the role Father Boily has arrogated to himself. |
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| It suggests that a president who has arrogated to himself near-absolute power can create the basis for a durable democracy. |
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| Canada has arrogated to itself rights over a free international area, the high seas. |
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| In 2007, the CPDM arrogated 153 of the 180 seats in the legislative elections to itself, a virtual return to the single-party state. |
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| And that was one of the things that I'm pointing out in my book, that the courts have arrogated power to themselves that should be given to the legislature. |
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| The Government of Canada had arrogated to itself a leading global role in human rights advocacy while certain parts of its own population suffered from human rights violations. |
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| The report says clearly that the Security Council has arrogated to itself far more power vis-à-vis the General Assembly than is warranted by the Charter. |
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| And the parliament has, in effect, arrogated to itself the power to reject national governments' appointments to the European Commission, the EU's executive arm. |
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| In other parts of Europe, sovereign rulers arrogated to themselves the exclusive prerogative to act as fons honorum within their realms. |
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| The courts have arrogated to themselves this decision over the course of the last four or five court cases, yet I'd like to suggest to you that courts are probably the last place we should be dealing with this issue. |
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| Indeed, the arguments on subsidiarity over the past decade suggest that there is merit in giving back to nation-states some of the powers that Brussels has arrogated to itself over time. |
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| In frustration at the constant dissembling of Bosnian politicians, the international community has arrogated a series of bold new powers to itself. |
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| So I must reject the reproach made against the Commission that it has arrogated unto itself certain competences that it should not have, that it is framing its own system of rules. |
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| The name of one of these was Claudius, who arrogated to himself elderdom over the others, though they by no means allowed his claim of superiority, hut quarrelled with him. |
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| They've arrogated to themselves the power to change the rules arbitrarily. |
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