Legally
in sentence
412 examples of Legally in a sentence
(The current and popular Socialist president, Michelle Bachelet, could not
legally
run for reelection.)
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol marked a major step forward in efforts to head off the most disastrous consequences of climate change, establishing a precedent for
legally
binding limits on emissions.
Poverty will lead to more migrants seeking to move, whether
legally
or not, to rich nations.
Rising youth unemployment and cuts in pensions and social expenditures come at a time when many large multinational corporations
legally
avoid taxes by shifting their profits to favorable jurisdictions.
President Andrzej Duda has refused to seat
legally
selected judges.
Finally, in October 2016, the UN General Assembly’s First Committee, which is responsible for international peace and security, voted “to convene in 2017 a United Nations conference to negotiate a
legally
binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.”
The new resolution’s instructions are straightforward: “States participating in the conference” should “make their best endeavors to conclude as soon as possible a
legally
binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.”
The fundamental problem with the ICJ’s decision is its unrealistically high standard of proof for finding Serbia to have been
legally
complicit in genocide.
Russia, whose nuclear arsenal represents one of the last remaining pillars of its “great power” status, declared that it would agree to further cuts only after the US offered a
legally
binding agreement that its proposed anti-ballistic missile (ABM) shield in Europe would not be aimed at Russia.
Chile’s traditional left, arguing that lithium is
legally
classified as a strategic resource, rules out any further private-sector involvement in its production.
In too many cases, a copyright-protected audio book produced in France or Canada, for example, cannot
legally
be shared with a college library in francophone Africa for use by blind students.
Argentina and Spain cannot
legally
share their 165,000 accessible titles with libraries for Spanish-speaking blind people in Chile, Columbia, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Uruguay, which together have only 8,517 titles.
It is time for President Barack Obama’s administration to see what we see and allow its negotiators to press for adoption of a
legally
binding treaty.
To the extent that false flags are imperfect and rumors of the source of an attack are widely deemed credible (though not
legally
probative), reputational damage to an attacker’s soft power may contribute to deterrence.
Combining environmental and developmental frameworks is a good idea – one that builds on the success of a host of
legally
binding international conventions and agreements crafted under the UN’s auspices to protect the climate, conserve biodiversity, uphold human rights, and reduce poverty.
According to the FMLC paper, “they are usually the subject of interpretative disagreement, are not
legally
binding, do not benefit from any binding dispute-resolution mechanisms, and do not prevent national authorities from acting unilaterally.”
Earlier conferences of the UNFCCC signatories sought to reach
legally
binding agreements on emission reductions, at least for the industrialized countries that have produced most of the greenhouse gases now in the atmosphere.
While the voluntary obligations contained in the Paris agreement are important, what is really needed is
legally
binding commitments (based, of course, on scientific calculations, modeling, and simulations).
But this danger can be countered by requiring banks to operate as
legally
incorporated subsidiaries, with locally regulated capital and liquidity reserves, and strong regulatory limits on the maturity of their funding.
The global powers should openly acknowledge that – whether one likes it or not, and whether it is good policy or not – the
legally
correct position under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is that Iran does have a right to enrich uranium for purely civilian purposes.
This would leave the EU no choice but to change its internal plans, undermining its ability to stay on track to meet emissions-reduction aspirations for 2050 and diminishing member states’ willingness to agree to ambitious and
legally
binding climate and energy targets for 2030.
Although we had it on good authority that they were technically rigorous and
legally
sound, they simply were never discussed.
Even if a country agrees to broad ranging IAEA inspections, it can
legally
accumulate enriched uranium (or reprocessed plutonium) under the guise of a peaceful energy program, and then suddenly declare that circumstances have changed and withdraw from the treaty - with the ability to produce nuclear weapons on short notice.
Given Bo’s gift for dazzling an audience, his allies must have felt confident that a spirited defense would serve him well, both
legally
and politically.
In 2002, China and ASEAN agreed on a
legally
non-binding code of conduct for managing such disputes, but, as a large power, China believes that it will gain more in bilateral rather than multilateral negotiations with small countries.
But, as the British newspaper The Guardian assured readers, this was a breakthrough, because developing countries, including India and China, were, for the first time, “agreeing to be
legally
bound to curb their greenhouse gases.”
Just a few days later, the Indian environment minister, Shrimati Jayanthi Natarajan, stressed that there was no
legally
binding treaty: “India cannot agree to a
legally
binding agreement for emissions reduction at this stage of our development.…I
Néstor Kirchner, Cristina’s husband and Argentina’s current president, did not want to run for office again, despite being
legally
permitted to do so and voters’ preference for him over her.
Because the ECB’s price-stability mandate is
legally
codified by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, it cannot be altered without a treaty amendment.
Such infantile ploys have become all too characteristic of the PiS government, which has also refused to publish Polish Constitutional Tribunal decisions, as if this makes them
legally
non-binding.
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