Legally
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412 examples of Legally in a sentence
National emissions targets are voluntary, rather than inscribed in the agreement, so they are not
legally
binding.
Not only can members of Congress
legally
trade on confidential information; they do, despite the potential cost to their reputations.
For example, it creates the possibility that, say, British MPs could
legally
trade shares on information acquired in the course of normal business, because they do not qualify as “insiders.”
Second, the European Union has taken the least
legally
difficult route to debt-crisis resolution: the so-called “contractual approach,” which aims at facilitating agreement with private creditors.
There was also a very painful recent decision –
legally
unavoidable but one that made me feel, as a journalist, dishonorable and ashamed – not to pursue a proposed face-to-face encounter with Assange while he was under house arrest near Cambridge.
A key indicator of economic vitality is the number of
legally
registered enterprises per population.
In China, there is no such protection, because private property was not
legally
recognized until recently, and the court system is not independent.
Banks and other financial firms roam internationally, greatly assisted by market-opening rules embedded in trade and investment treaties, but with no
legally
enforceable responsibility to provision adequately for their own losses when things go wrong.
Typically, faculty members establish private firms, often with students and support staff, while retaining their academic positions, and university administrations invest in
legally
independent incubator companies, usually in molecular biology, computer science, combinatorial chemistry, and other fields.
We had better sort it out quickly – legally, morally, and culturally – if we are to retain a proper sense of what it means to live in a free society.
Disinformation spread by foreign actors can be treated very differently – both
legally
and normatively – than disinformation spread by citizens, particularly in the United States, with its unparalleled free-speech protections and relatively strict rules on foreign interference.
As a result, they have little direct appreciation of the worst aspect of one-party rule: a rapacious,
legally
unrestrained elite.
For example, freezers that require CFC’s can be freely exported from, say, Sweden, where they can no longer
legally
be refilled when required, to Egypt, where refilling is allowed.
For this to pay off, however, host countries will first need to remove restrictions on refugees’ ability to work
legally.
The failure of Copenhagen was not the absence of a
legally
binding agreement.
Until now, nuclear-weapon states’ national governments and bureaucracies have preferred to limit the disarmament debate to symbolic measures that imply no deadlines or additional
legally
binding obligations.
Indeed, no one should underestimate the magnitude of the challenge now facing South Africa, the host of next year’s talks, in terms of midwifing a new
legally
binding agreement to bridge this gap and securing the finance needed to bring the Green Fund into operation.
Iranians, many of whom are
legally
resident in the US, are especially aggrieved.
Given that under common law, the woman who bears a child is
legally
its mother, this provision would have been radically pro-surrogacy.
That quip would often be followed by a recitation of Milton Friedman’s famous dictum that corporate executives’ only social responsibility is to make as much money for shareholders as is
legally
possible.
About one million Haitians now live in the Dominican Republic, but only about 10% of the Haitian laborers in the country are there legally, a condition that invites their exploitation by greedy employers.
Contrary to Western expectations, most of this domestic Internet censorship is carried out not by the government's Internet police, but by Chinese Web hosting companies, which are being held
legally
responsible for what their users publish.
Moreover, states are not
legally
bound to change the policies or laws that are deemed to be violating their international human-rights obligations.
To be sure, Saudi Arabia lacks a basic code of laws or
legally
enshrined rights.
It would be better still if governments were
legally
bound to use these independent forecasts in their budget plans (borrowing an innovation from Chile).
But the incessant, extended media coverage of the investigation suggests that the MPD has provided – and possibly even leaked – information from the investigation to journalists, a routine but
legally
dubious means of gaining public support.
It can do so because the Court's judgments will be
legally
binding and thus enforceable in national courts.
If A is
legally
bound to return B’s cow when she strays onto his land, and then C’s cow strays onto B’s land in relevantly similar circumstances, B must also be bound to return C’s cow.
In a panic, acting President Dioncounda Traoré, a colonel from the south, called upon the French authorities to enforce a bilateral defense agreement, though he had contributed to the coup that drove the
legally
elected former president, Amadou Toumani Touré, into exile, causing the state to collapse and straining relations with France.
Over the past 15 years, as many central banks became
legally
independent from government influence, the results in terms of lower price inflation have become undeniable.
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