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By a vote of eight to three, the Court upheld his conviction on charges of racism.
Within two years of Kyrgyzstan’s independence, prisons filled with women held on drug-trafficking charges.
But Snowden received help from an unexpected source, Hong Kong’s government, which disregarded a US request to hold him to face espionage charges and allowed him to leave for Moscow.
Mr. and Mrs. Sarney were eventually absolved of all charges, but not soon enough to save her candidacy.
These charges need to be investigated if President Medvedev’s claims to want a society based on the rule of law are not to ring hollow.
The military prosecutor investigating the case soon found himself in jail on trumped-up charges, while the perpetrator was reinstated.
His effort to use corruption charges to exclude from the election his vice president, Atiku Abububar, with whom he had been feuding since 2004, also failed when the Supreme Court ruled that Abububar’s name had to be restored to the ballot.
For example, protectionist Democrats in the US Congress have been able to insulate themselves from charges of opposing free trade if they scuttle Colombia’s FTA, because they will most likely ratify the deals for Panama and Peru.
But, with new regulations punishing such trading (via higher capital charges), banks and other financial institutions have reduced their market-making activity.
This will inevitably lead to charges of “proselytizing,” a term that has come to carry a pejorative meaning.
The problem is that fusion involves joining two positively charged nuclei – and, as basic science shows, same-sign charges repel each other.
Economics has always had its critics, of course, but the financial crisis and its aftermath have given them fresh ammunition, seeming to validate long-standing charges against the profession’s unrealistic assumptions, reification of markets, and disregard for social concerns.
Nevertheless, fourteen civil society activists who attempted to organize a special meeting to address the realities of the Kurdish issue in Syria recently received various sentences on charges of working to undermine national unity.
Savchenko has been on a hunger strike in Russia for more than two months to protest her patently illegal incarceration on charges even more ludicrous than those for which I was imprisoned.
Moreover, if Ukraine's partners are serious about upholding the rule of law, charges should be filed against Kremlin leaders at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for the numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity that its forces have committed in Ukraine.
We have peace and prosperity and no more data roaming charges, but what’s next?
Stops and searches conducted under counter-terrorism powers in Europe have produced few terrorism charges and no convictions.
They were convicted for financial crimes in a 2004 trial, but in August faced a fresh round of charges, including tax evasion and embezzlement.
Alan Greenspan on TrialThe release of Alan Greenspan’s ghostwritten memoirs The Age of Turbulence has elicited charges that he was not such a great central banker after all.
The “felonies” of which Greenspan stands accused are the other two charges: that he should have done more to stop the stock market bubble of the late 1990’s, and that he should have done more to stop the housing bubble of the early 2000’s.
And Western multinationals are hardly immune from charges of such abuses in Africa (often stretching back many years).
And, earlier this year, the Cameron government was incensed by a decision that barred the deportation of an Islamic preacher to Jordan on terrorism charges, because his trial there might be tainted by evidence obtained under torture.
The United States military, appropriately and of necessity, took the time needed to ensure that it had the facts before responding that the charges were untrue.
The protests began when the government tried to enact amnesty legislation that would have overturned the conviction of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra – Yingluck’s brother and the PTP’s founder, who was overthrown by the military in 2006 – on charges of corruption and abuse of power.
(It also would have superseded the murder charges brought against the Democratic Party’s leader, former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.)
But once Pinochet was arrested in London, on charges filed by a Spanish judge, his carefully constructed edifice of impunity began to crumble.
As a result, when Pinochet was returned to Chile sixteen months later, on medical grounds, he faced revived criminal charges filed by victims and survivors of his rule.
Additional private pensions in Germany, rising charges for healthcare everywhere, and "top-up fees" for university students in the United Kingdom have become hot political issues bedevilling governments almost everywhere.
This can be done in several ways: by means tests that impose duties on many parents; by loans to be repaid under favourable conditions; by a special tax on graduates; or by mixtures of such approaches involving a generous system of bursaries as well as charges on well-to-do parents.
But of all the charges thrown at President Barack Obama by his domestic political opponents, the hardest for most outsiders to accept is that he is too emotionally disengaged: all brain cells and no red-blood cells.
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