executive power

“In the province, which is regarded as the local arm of governmental administration, the State exercises its functions through a prefect, who represents the central executive power and is assisted by a prefectoral council and an office of his own.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

“By this novel institution, which the executive power has borrowed from the judicial, the Staatsrecht has been established in Italy.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

“The stiff-necked unanimity of the generals would be shaken and their executive power still further eroded by one of the Führer's own nominees.”

Barbarossa

“Coming from the Norwegian government and the Red Cross to United Nations Headquarters, I could not believe how cumbersome UN procedures are, and how little executive power the secretary-general and his chief executives have.”

Simon & Schuster: A Billion Lives

“In the midst of these difficulties, the executive power appointed General Francisco Miranda supreme commander of all the forces of the Republic, on land and sea, and the government withdrew from Valencia to the town of La Victoria, situated between Valencia and Caracas.”

Simon Bolivar the Liberator

“If a Ministry, responsible to Parliament, had existed, the executive power would have been taken away from the Bundesrath, and the Princes of the smaller States would really have been subjected to the new organ; the Ministers must have been appointed by the President; they would have looked to him and to the Reichstag for support, and would soon have begun to carry out their policy, not by agreement with the Governments arrived at by technical discussions across the table of the Council-room, but by orders and decrees based on the will of the Parliament.”

Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire

“The loss of executive power was alleviated by the gift of legislative authority; and Ulpian might assert, after the practice of two hundred years, that the decrees of the senate obtained the force and validity of laws.”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“But the bitter pill of defeat had to be swallowed in some way, so the convention delegated M. Thiers to represent the executive power of the country, with authority to construct a ministry three commissioners were appointed by the Executive, to enter into further negotiations with Count Bismarck at Versailles and arrange a peace, the terms of which, however, were to be submitted to the convention for final action.”

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