Arrogated

In his judicial revolution of the 1990s, Aharon Barak, the father of Israel’s judicial aristocracy, arrogated to the court the power to abrogate duly promulgated Knesset laws, with no legal authority.

Roe and Casey arrogated that authority.

The old-line PNC elites’ only hope is that the Committee of Elders – who arrogated to themselves the power to judge whether Vanessa Kissoon’s allegations of sexual harassment by Norton – will call the latter out.

I will contest because I believe in parliamentary democracy… Why have these parties arrogated this power to decide who should contest or who shouldn’t?

On the global stage, Trump has arrogated to himself the desire, though not the actual ability, to exert control as well.

Now under this circumstance, as Okorocha cruises to the end of his final tenure, he erroneously believes that he has the arrogated- power to hoist on the people of Imo State whosoever he chooses to succeed him hook, line and sinker.

Edmund Wilson argues that statistically "the logic of the 'Modest proposal' can be compared with defense of crime (arrogated to Marx) in which he argues that crime takes care of the superfluous population".