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255 examples of Jurisdiction in a sentence

Unfortunately, the World Heritage Convention does not recognize the need to protect areas beyond national jurisdiction, at present.
So with that, I would just like to sincerely thank and honor Sylvia Earle for her wish, for it is helping us to put a face on the high seas and the deep seas beyond national jurisdiction.
Or they're responding to requests and concerns by governments that have no jurisdiction over many, or most, of the users and viewers who are interacting with the content in question.
They were unbelievably expensive to administer, they were time-consuming, they were limited to the local jurisdiction in which they'd been created.
The first thing they did was to recognize the specificity of political jurisdiction inscribed in that empty space.
They were also lucky, they said, because they began to dig in a sort of Bermuda Triangle of jurisdiction, between port authority, airport authority, two city districts, and a review board.
And we said, yeah, you're absolutely right, and we drove those liar's loans out of the industry in 1990 and 1991, but we could only deal with the industry we had jurisdiction over, which was savings and loans, and so the biggest and the baddest of the frauds, Long Beach Savings, voluntarily gave up its federal savings and loan charter, gave up federal deposit insurance, converted to become a mortgage bank for the sole purpose of escaping our jurisdiction, and changed its name to Ameriquest, and became the most notorious of the liar's loans frauds early on, and to add to that, they deliberately predated upon minorities.
We then searched through 80 jurisdictions, it took us seven years, to find the jurisdiction where we wanted to begin filing our first suit.
The next time there's a local district attorney's election in your jurisdiction, ask candidates these questions.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has been given jurisdiction to approve any bike helmet for sale, and this is the test they use.
50 percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.
In the US, these devices come under the FDA's jurisdiction as a tobacco product.
Law enforcement works in one jurisdiction.
We were asked to help a California district attorney understand prosecutorial delays in their jurisdiction.
But also, we ourselves analyzed their data, looking to see if the duration of the process suffered from social inequalities in their jurisdiction.
Instead of every leader responding to what’s happening in their jurisdiction, here everyone must treat the world as the giant interconnected system it is.
Maybe you've got a claim in small claims court for your lost pair of pants for $100, but not in a court of general jurisdiction for millions of dollars.
The villain receives a pardon for all crimes committed in the county, the problem is the murders he was convicted of took place outside the sheriff's jurisdiction and thus outside the county.
In addition, as the UN's chief human rights officer recently noted, NATO's possible war crimes fall within the jurisdiction of the same war crimes tribunal that might indict Mr. Milosevic.
And though the United States invokes international human rights institutions when doing so suits its purposes, it renounces these institutions when they attempt to assert jurisdiction over the United States.
It will only have prospective jurisdiction.
In other words, when everything is going well, you may be willing to believe that it does not matter where a particular international bank gets its equity funding and in which jurisdiction its debts are issued.
For example, about half of Shanghai’s administrative jurisdiction of 6,340 square kilometers (2,448 square miles) is rural.
Among the major multilateral institutions, the WTO maintains jurisdiction over trade.
If Japan did that, however, it would effectively be recognizing Russia’s jurisdiction over the islands.
Submitting to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, which UK leaders accuse of delivering judgments based on vested interests, is not an option, either.
Her ultimate objective is to survive as Prime Minister, and she believes that controlling immigration – a longtime personal obsession – will endear her to “Leave” voters, and that ending the European Court of Justice’s jurisdiction in Britain will pacify the nationalists in her Conservative Party.
The announcement comes less than a month before the ECB takes over direct supervision of some 130 banks, representing more than 80% of eurozone bank assets, leaving only smaller national banks under the jurisdiction of local supervisory agencies.
But a regime in which personal responsibility strongly affects individuals in one jurisdiction will give bankers pause for thought, especially in the case of global banks with complex matrix-management systems that enable product heads to be moved elsewhere.
During Arpaio’s 24 years as the sheriff of a jurisdiction that includes the rapidly growing city of Phoenix, he built his reputation on his department’s aggressive efforts to track down undocumented immigrants – and on the brutal conditions he established in the facilities where they were held.
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