Once or twice I was a member of committees which looked into gross and widely ramifying governmental abuses.

Critics say the administration could conduct such surveillance while still getting prior court approval, as spelled out in a 1978 law intended to guard against governmental abuses.

He describes the sensitivity that he fostered for all victims of oppression under governmental abuses of power.

He was elected to the colony's assembly and spoke out against governmental abuses.

The court is charged with guarding against governmental spying abuses.

Such pressure from abroad is needed to deter future judicial outrages, given the harsh penalties Singapore inflicts on its own domestic critics of governmental abuses.

Most of these are related either to the lack of legal enforcement throughout the region or to governmental abuses in face of weakening contending powers.

The highly competitive Latvian mass media are proving to be reliable sources of information and watchdogs against governmental abuses of power.

They also criticised the report's recommendations that the army and the attorney general carry out further investigation as these organisations had ignored "governmental abuses for decades".

Indeed, the Framers recognized that even the Constitution they crafted was not a fail-safe guarantee against governmental abuses of power.