Exempel på usurping

• The size of his plantation increased from 200 to 3,000 acres, in particular by usurping the property of local people.

• The strong have a duty to display sympathy for the weak instead of stealing their land and usurping their freedom.

• Adding insult to injury: usurping patients' prerogatives.

• The suggestion envisaged a commodity commission purchasing meat abroad and selling it in this country, thus usurping what the trade does infinitely better here.

• I believe that we are in fact usurping the proper functions of the courts of the land.

• They are usurping the natural breast-feeding process to improve sales of their products.

• How could such a system avoid usurping ministerial responsibilities, while ensuring that people's complaints are not overlooked?

• Nobody can say what is "usurping the functions of the police," and nobody can say what is a procession.

• To my mind, the magistrates were there usurping the functions of the sheriff.

• There is no question of usurping the principle of treating each case on its merits or removing local authority discretion.

• Governments, usurping the functions of a higher power, have sought to temper the wind to the lambs that were shorn by themselves supporting the debtors.

• One may be excused for saying that this is not eroding the powers of the boroughs: that this is usurping the powers of the boroughs.

• Is the agency usurping the role of the courts?

• I believe that they are usurping the role of the courts in deciding a case without proper presentation of the evidence.

• The miners' officials are usurping the power of other trade unions.