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How to use police power in a sentence

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In using the police power in this broad way, municipalities can avoid charges of arbitrary and capricious acts.
This act represents a case of police power that is unaccountable and arbitrary.
The federal government may have no enumerated power with which to wage a war on drugs, but states do have a general police power.
Cease-and-desist orders do little good in states like Florida where regulators lack police power to arrest suspects and seize assets.
All agree that the legislature cannot bargain away the police power of a State.
The limitations on the police power and the limitations on the municipal ordinance power are not always distinguishable.
The same obligation to balance powers marks out the limits of the conjunction of military power and police power so as to exclude all confusion.
Liberty of contract certainly did exist, but it had to be subordinate to the police power.
Unlike later models of fictional police, these supersleuths are in the great detective tradition, relying on brainpower not police power or firepower.
Please indicate whether those investigations have resulted in prosecutions for abuse of police power and, if so, provide detailed information.
We condemned the abuse of state and police power against protests in the Tibetan region last year.
Taking on the point of view and the language of the police power is what makes this film intelligent, far more disturbing than an indictment.
The claims about the abuse of police power appear to be attempts to fuel opposition to the law.
Infringements upon freedom of assembly linked to excessive police power have been observed in several Member States.
The measure was held to be a legitimate exercise of the police power of the State.
Abuse of police power needs to be stamped out as soon as it starts.
The fact is, fighting anarchists, reds and labor organizers played a very important part in developing modern forms of identification and police power.
I was determined I would never yield to police power.
The Bank shall exercise supervision of and police power over its premises.
The limits of police power expand as the level of social order declines.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The separate car law is an exercise of police power in the interest of public order, peace and comfort.
If it is compulsory it must rest entirely within the police power of the State.
Against thoughts no egoistic power is to appear, no police power and the like.
And for weapons, the ring controlled the police power of the State and of the city.
In other words, it was virtually held that it was not, and so that the law was not a proper exercise of the police power.
It is an arm of the police power to guarantee order and the execution of the law at home and security to our citizens abroad.
The police power prescribes certain hours at which drinking places shall be closed.
Each country was to exercise police power in its own jurisdiction.
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