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Europe's peoples have sanctioned limiting their own governments powers so as to achieve peace across Europe.
In addition, some religious leaders argue that human rights can be acceptable only if they are founded on the transcendent values of faith and are thus sanctioned by God.
A notable exception was NATO's intervention in Kosovo, which was not explicitly sanctioned by the UN.
Anything that violates traditional gender stereotypes is severely sanctioned in Mexican society; therein lies the true foundation of homophobia.
Israel has never been sanctioned for its bomb, and India has a waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group, as well as several civil nuclear agreements with the United States, Australia, Canada, and Japan.
In the case of female genital mutilation and child marriage, such violence is culturally sanctioned.
We recognize that child marriage is a deeply embedded tradition in many societies – all too often sanctioned by religious leaders.
He even claimed to be proud of not enforcing the “red line” he had drawn in 2012 regarding Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons, as neither international law nor the US Congress would have sanctioned intervention.
But, despite legal prohibitions, slavery proved remarkably resilient, with colonists using subterfuges such as debt peonage, “just wars” (which sanctioned enslavement of captured enemies as a more moral outcome than justified slaughter), and other tricks.
It is one thing is to be sanctioned for breaching the rules, as with the Stability and Growth Pact; it is quite another thing to permit elected national governments and parliaments to be overruled, and national budgets censored, by an unelected higher authority.
Now, Maduro is working to entrench an increasingly authoritarian dictatorship, with the help of a new “constitution”, which is expected soon from the fraudulently elected National Constituent Assembly that sanctioned the “presidential election” in May.
The following month, the US Treasury sanctioned more than 20 Russian individuals and companies – including the oil and aluminum tycoons Oleg Deripaska and Alexey Miller – causing the affected firms’ share prices to fall.
As the country heads toward an election later this year, the European Commission has sanctioned the widening of its structural deficit.
Economic sanctions alone are dubious against the world’s most sanctioned country.
The sanctioned course of a woman’s life is to remain at home and raise young jihadists to fight for the state.
Where China’s actions threaten its neighbors, as with its territorial claims in the South China Sea, they should be strongly sanctioned and resisted.
Cult-animated uprisings against unjust authority, with which Falun Gong is now identified, have always been viewed by Chinese as portents that political legitimacy -- sanctioned by the so-called “mandate of heaven” (tianming)that is said to exist when “heaven” confers its favor on a ruling dynasty -- has been withdrawn.
Any deviation from officially sanctioned behavior would be treated with suspicion and most likely punished.
It is time for Cambodia’s political leaders to be named, shamed, investigated, and sanctioned by the international community.
Since the implementation of a doping test for these steroids in 1975, numerous athletes have been caught and sanctioned.
Property rights are ultimately sanctioned by society, and, to the extent that they seem to be unfair, society has an incentive to change them.
However, if Iran were allowed to become a nuclear weapons state, it should be done by agreement with the five “legal” nuclear powers (the US, Russia, Britain, France, and China) – that is, by an officially sanctioned enlargement of the nuclear club, which would include India, Pakistan, and Israel.
Does he have in mind something like a Saudi protectorate over the Palestinians, sanctioned by the Arab League?
Political parties could also help by conducting voter registration drives targeting women, and officially sanctioned messaging campaigns could encourage women to register and families to assist them.
The EU has since imposed additional sanctions on judges and other officials involved in punishing protestors, bringing the number of sanctioned individuals to 190.
But the Security Council did agree to intervene in Libya, and it sanctioned intervention by a French/African Union force to prevent genocide in the Central African Republic.
It is time to change this, by initiating comprehensive investigations into the assets of sanctioned people.
It makes sense to think that when state authorities enforce strict codes of behavior, people tend to rebel and move away from officially sanctioned religious institutions.
What is now done in the sky over Libya – sanctioned by international law and, unlike in Iraq in 2003, with the ambivalent political support of the Arab League – is fundamental if the Arab revolutionaries are to take a positive view of the West.
As chairman of the PLO, he will be under extreme pressure not to delegitimize the internationally sanctioned acts of resistance against Israeli military targets.
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