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No one in a position of authority – like parents or teachers – seemed concerned that the victims were unmarried girls, often below the legal age of consent.
Knowing that no attempt to take legal action against the authorities or influencers who threaten them will produce any results, many journalists censor themselves.
To be sure, Trump’s pardon of Arpaio has not created a legal basis for impunity; the pardon power’s constitutional limitations prevent that.
Such a move would be met with a potential legal challenge, based on the impeachment clause or other constitutional limits.
In the interest of lowering its borrowing costs, the authorities issued the new debt under New York law, despite the expensive battle that the country had just lost precisely because it had borrowed under that legal framework.
Consider the vast investment and entrepreneurial activity that China has elicited through a hybrid system of property rights and a legal regime that is as far as imaginable from the Anglo-American system.
The FSB’s charter, revised in 2012, says that signatories are subject to no legal obligations whatsoever.
Such measures include assisting the Green Movement so that it can maintain access to the Internet, introducing additional sanctions aimed at the Revolutionary Guard, and publicly supporting the political and legal rights of the Iranian people.
Appointing an Iraqi tribunal capable of generating some form of legal accountability for Saddam and his henchmen--an idea that is gaining ground among Bremer's staff, at least for Saddam Hussein if he is captured alive--is unrealistic.
In a ceremony celebrating the promulgation of the current 1982 constitution, Hu reportedly expressed interest in strengthening constitutional protections against official intrusions in people's lives and in promoting extensive legal reform.
For example, legal scholar Cao Siyuan began writing on, lobbying for, and organizing conferences about constitutional reform.
Then reform-minded intellectuals like Cao Siyuan began to be trailed by Public Security Bureau goons, and members attending a conferences on legal reform organized by Cao were admonished by the Propaganda Department (China's censors) to stop discussing the "three unmentionables," (political reform, constitutional revision, and reversing the verdicts on historical incidents).
She thus opened the door for physician assistance in dying for any grievously and irremediably ill competent adult, under conditions not very different from those that apply in other jurisdictions where physician assistance in dying is legal.
More unfortunate still was his implication that this was the cause of a series of gang rapes in Sydney in 2000, in which the attackers’ legal defense was that they thought the women were sexually available because they wore Western clothes.
The second problem with the bankruptcy approach is that international regulators would find themselves unable to cooperate – for their own legal and procedural reasons – with a US process that affects a major part of their own economies.
Globalisation has brought increasing acceptance of common rules and legal norms, but this is not the same thing as universal acceptance of human rights.
Today, the threat of terrorist attack causes people to re-examine human rights and legal standards.
Second, it was hoped that the euro would become a major international currency (particularly given how few countries are equipped with the necessary legal, market, and policy institutions).
Formally, it still does not have a legal right to discipline individual Commissioners.
If "constitutionalized", they simply implant the idea that the constitution is a statement of aspirations, rather than a set of enforceable legal rights.
The legal and political challenges implied are no minor matter: marijuana remains an illicit substance under US federal law and international conventions that America has adopted.
Then, in a series of leaks and explicit statements, the new government pointed out the previous policies’ high legal, bureaucratic, and financial costs, and that many more crimes of all types were committed, despite sharply higher spending on law enforcement and security.
In the midst of a major employment crisis, technology continues to reduce the labor needed for mass production, while the automation of routine legal and accounting tasks is hollowing out that sector of the job market as well.
Russia must be convinced that its resources will be far more valuable if they are opened to international investment, managed transparently, and operated according to the legal and commercial rules of the international trading system.
Even with good intentions, these countries on their own are unlikely to ensure that the benefits of conserving the Amazon are realized, because private interests in deforestation – both legal and illegal – remain very strong.
Though land reforms over the last three decades have recognized property rights for individuals and enterprises, rural land rights remain weak relative to legal conditions in urban areas.
Legal integration is increasing, and European Court verdicts have compelled member countries to change policies.
Its lack of vision, divisions, obsession with legal frameworks, unwillingness to project military power, and sclerotic economy are contrasted with a United States more dominant even than Rome…But the problem is not Europe – it is our outdated understanding of power.”
Fossil-fuel companies and governments are already facing intensifying legal pressure.
Anyone in Poland who provides information about or makes arrangements for a legal abortion abroad may be charged as an accessory.
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