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Through their buying power, traditional retailers could dramatically lower the direct costs of procurement and, in the process, usurp the role of wholesalers in the apparel distribution system.
They also have institutional costs because, to the extent that they subvert clear meaning that the legislature created, they usurp legislative authority and diminish the separation of powers, one of the bedrocks of our system of government.
Asecond camp of conservative opponents, including House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the religious right, dislikes any version of national testing . This group believes that the standards are a way for liberals to establish a national curriculum and usurp local control of schools.
We have all endured screeds from conservatives on how terrible it is for Washington to usurp power from the states.
It is not like they are going to come in and usurp that."