2013年7月28日星期日

exceptions, grantor, take exception, mandate, usurp

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"There's not an action that I take that you don't have some folks in Congress who say that I'm usurping my authority. Some of those folks think I usurp my authority by having the gall to win the presidency."

PRESIDENT OBAMA, in an interview with The New York Times.

The name of Burma's then capital, Rangoon, also became Myanmar's center of power, Yanyon - later usurped by a new capital, Naypyidaw, built at the behest of the generals.
However, Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy has taken exception to the renaming, saying that the regime had no mandate to make such a change.

exceptions
Something that otherwise ought to be included in the category from which it is eliminated. 157 F. 2d 661, 665. "Exceptions" arise in numerous contexts. statutory exceptions are intended to restrain the enacting clause or to exclude something which would otherwise be within it, or to modify it in some manner. 102 P. 2d 251, 256.
An "exception" to a court's ruling is an objection to such ruling or the calling of an error to the attention of the court in some manner. 168 N.E. 2d 285, 287.
"Exception" is also generally used as a term meaning to withhold from a conveyance of land an estate or interest which has previously been severed and which is usually not owned by the grantor. 506 P. 2d 1236, 1238.

usurp

Pronunciation: /jʊˈzəːp, jʊˈsəːp/

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verb

[with object]

take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force:Richard usurped the throne
take the place of (someone in a position of power) illegally; supplant:the Hanoverian dynasty had usurped the Stuarts
[no object] (usurp on/upon) archaic encroach or infringe upon (someone’s rights):the Church had usurped upon the domain of the state

Derivatives

usurpation
usurper

Origin:

Middle English (in the sense 'appropriate a right wrongfully'): from Old French usurper, from Latin usurpare 'seize for use'

exception
[名][U][C]

1 例外, 除外(exclusion)

with the exception of ...
… を除いて

without exception
例外なく.

2 [C]（…の）除外例, 例外, 特例((to ...))

an exception to a rule
規則の例外

make an exception of ［for］ ...
…を例外［特別扱い］とする

make no exception(s) of ［for］ ...
…を例外としない, 特別扱いしない

The exception proves the rule.
((ことわざ)) 例外のあるのは規則のある証拠.

3 異議, 反対, 不服, 苦情；《法律》異議（申し立て）, 異議留保

a statement liable to exception
異議の起こりそうな発言.

take exception

(1) （…に）異議を申し立てる, 苦情を言う((to, against ...))

He took exception to my ideas on politics.
彼は私の政治についての考えに異議を唱えた.

(2) （…に）腹を立てる, 怒る((to, at ...)).
Disagree with, object to, as in I take exception to that remark about unfair practices. This idiom, first recorded in 1542, uses exception in the sense of "objection," a meaning obsolete except in a few phrases.

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