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Jackson thus rejected a decision handed down by what Hamilton would call “judges holding their offices during good behavior.”
Last month, 107 people – including Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president – were handed death sentences for their alleged role in a mass “prison break” during the January 2011 uprising against former President Hosni Mubarak.
Soon after, the six defendants in the so-called “Arab Sharkas” case – who were handed death sentences in October 2014 for allegedly attacking security posts – were executed, despite a local and international outcry against the flawed trial.
Overall, civilian courts have handed down more than 1,000 death sentences since Egypt’s military overthrew Morsi in July 2013.
With this lustration law young rightists have been handed a stick with which to beat their older colleagues for their behavior during our Stalinist period – and perhaps advance their own careers by ousting older rivals from their jobs.
Merkel has now handed over the leadership of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and will not seek another term as chancellor.
Nine days later, Hagel handed in his resignation, which will take effect as soon as the US Senate confirms his replacement.
Thus the mystery: how could Dr. Khan - who had no need to possess weapons design information - have handed over detailed bomb design documents to Libya?
It also created two new judicial chambers: one to discipline judges who step out of line, the other to review rulings handed down over the last 20 years and to decide on the validity of the elections.
Just last week, in a notorious show trial, the Ukrainian helicopter pilot Nadiya Savchenko was handed a 22-year prison sentence on falsified evidence that she was involved in the killing of two Russian journalists during the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine.
In the years of the bubble economy, Japanese banks handed out money as if they did not care about repayment.
I had had no idea that the tin of dental floss in my pocket – which I quickly handed over – was so valuable.
After all, if the United States had let yet another year go by without ratifying the IMF quota reform, it would have essentially handed over the keys of global economic leadership to China.
For 70 years, the PRI had a complete lock on Mexican politics; now three parties do, and no one else can enter the political arena or gain access to the enormous public subsidies – more than $500 million last year – handed out to these parties without their consent.
The ECB statute was not engraved on stone tablets and handed down on Mount Sinai.
In this climate of diminishing solidarity, old-style nationalism was practically handed its victories on a silver platter.
It also handed a lopsided draft agreement that seeks to freeze the belated, bumbling Indian build-up of border defenses while preserving China’s capability to strike without warning.
Three years ago, Premier Ehud Barak proposed a possible solution for approximately 150,000 settlers: combining some of the large settlements into contiguous blocks and annexing them to Israel along with the sprawling suburbs of Jerusalem, with Israeli land handed over to the future state of Palestine in exchange.
Imagine a future meeting of CELAC in which that body’s presidency is handed over to a modern, progressive leader who can put forward a compelling agenda of personal freedom, economic growth, and social inclusion.
Last week, we handed a report on our findings to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Just this month, five million masks were handed out at schools in New Delhi, India’s capital, owing to toxic smog.
Trump himself is still vulnerable to investigations initiated by or handed off to federal and state prosecutors outside of Washington.
Once a model democracy with a thriving free press, where incumbent governments lost elections and peacefully handed over power six times in 40 years, Venezuela has devolved into a kleptocratic dictatorship.
If these bodies and the judges within them are not legitimate, the 70,000 rulings they have handed down may be invalid.
Their efforts were successful: Bashir, who had ruled Sudan for 30 years, was toppled, and may yet be handed over to the International Criminal Court to face charges of war crimes and genocide in Darfur.
This is ultimately the people’s money, earned and borrowed and then spent, saved, invested, and handed to governments to use on their behalf.
But that does not mean that Malpass should simply be handed the World Bank presidency.
When Pelosi announced the impeachment inquiry in September, for example, she handed over leadership on the issue to the steady, tough-minded Schiff, removing it from the more openly partisan House Judiciary Committee, which has a weaker chairman (Jerrold Nadler of New York).
The light sentences handed out to the assassins only encouraged more, and greater, political bloodshed.
Small wonder, then, that Japanese voters handed Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) landslide electoral victories in 2014 and again in 2017.
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