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Over the decades, technology in the studio has made it possible for the vocally challenged to usurp craftsmanship and talent.

In the 1980s, Cheney was the ranking Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-Contra scandal, which was essentially about the president usurping the will of Congress to pursue his own policy goals.

“Activist Treasury issuance” practices, they wrote, were “dynamically managing financial conditions and through them, the economy, usurping core functions of the Federal Reserve.”

“Activist Treasury issuance” practices, they wrote, were “dynamically managing financial conditions and through them, the economy, usurping core functions of the Federal Reserve.”

In claiming power to give France a new constitution, Mr. Hardman notes, the assembly “had usurped the rights of the people as well as the king.”