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This legislation would again boost retailers' bottom lines at the expense of everyday Americans — stripping them of their credit card rewards and usurping their choice of network. – Jeff Tassey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Governor Newsom, who supported the failed initiative to end the death penalty in 2006, is usurping the express will of California voters and substituting his personal preferences via this hasty and ill-considered moratorium on the death penalty. – Michelle Hanisee	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This ruling marks a point of no return for this dictatorship, it is no longer just a question of annulling everything that the National Assembly does, but of usurping all its powers, allowing them to approve new sentencing laws that give more power to the dictator to continue hurting the people. – National Assembly	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It's unacceptable that bodies like the OAS ... receive these men when they know they are usurping a constitutional provision that international relations are exclusively managed by the president. – Elvis Amoroso	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The only ones usurping here are the Supreme Court judges in not following the constitution. – Simon Calzadilla	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We are not awaiting the end of the investigation; we are flight following the investigation from the time it happened to the time it ends. But we are not usurping the process that's in place where SpaceX leads it and the FAA oversees it. – Samuel Greaves	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

This legislation would again boost retailers' bottom lines at the expense of everyday Americans — stripping them of their credit card rewards and usurping their choice of network.

– Jeff Tassey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Governor Newsom, who supported the failed initiative to end the death penalty in 2006, is usurping the express will of California voters and substituting his personal preferences via this hasty and ill-considered moratorium on the death penalty.

– Michelle Hanisee

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This ruling marks a point of no return for this dictatorship, it is no longer just a question of annulling everything that the National Assembly does, but of usurping all its powers, allowing them to approve new sentencing laws that give more power to the dictator to continue hurting the people.

– National Assembly

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's unacceptable that bodies like the OAS ... receive these men when they know they are usurping a constitutional provision that international relations are exclusively managed by the president.

– Elvis Amoroso

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The only ones usurping here are the Supreme Court judges in not following the constitution.

– Simon Calzadilla

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We are not awaiting the end of the investigation; we are flight following the investigation from the time it happened to the time it ends. But we are not usurping the process that's in place where SpaceX leads it and the FAA oversees it.

– Samuel Greaves

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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