But then again, efficiency is not nearly as rousing a rallying cry as resisting federal usurpation.

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The Kooks saw the formation of a Jewish state not as a usurpation of tradition but as athalta degeula, an active beginning of redemption.

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On the state level, backdating could involve a breach of fiduciary duty, a waste of corporate assets and even a usurpation of a corporate opportunity.

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Conrad explained that Senate appropriators consider the conversion of a discretionary program to a mandatory one to be a usurpation of their power by the executive branch.

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Likewise, it remains indisputably true that his usurpation threw English politics, painstakingly restored to some order in the 12 years before his crime, into a turmoil from which it did not fully recover for another two decades.

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