By acquiring sanction from the central government in Baghdad, Assyrian led security units would further demonstrate their keenness to avoid contributing to partisanship and fragmentation in Iraq.
To cite but one example, the statement (91B) that many things which are necessary in time of war, but bad under other conditions, acquire the sanction of custom and law, and cannot be easily abolished, even though the people are being injured by them, will appeal to everybody except the confirmed militarist.
Just as many of the things which are necessary in war, but bad under other conditions, when they once acquire the sanction of custom and law, p33 cannot easily be abolished by the people even though the people are being injured by them, so enmity introduces envy along with hatred, and leaves as a residue jealousy, joy over others' misfortunes, and vindictiveness.
And liberty regulated by law cannot be permanently secured against the assaults of power or the tyranny of a majority, if the judiciary must be silent when rights existing independently of human sanction, or acquired under the law, are at the mercy of legislative action taken in violation of due process of law.
The weapons that have emerged from storehouses in recent days confirm that despite international sanctions, Libya had acquired arms from multiple sellers in the former Eastern bloc, accumulating an arsenal that looks like the bounty of cold war clearance sales.
In 2010, RBS agreed to pay $500 million to settle similar allegations by U.S. federal authorities that ABN Amro, a Dutch bank RBS acquired in 2007, had violated U.S. sanction laws.
BP was painfully exposed to any sanctions; by 2013 it had acquired a 20% minority shareholding in Rosneft.
These authorities additionally demonstrate that a claim which, when acquired by the state of South Dakota, was without legal sanction, did not, by the mere fact of such acquisition, become a justiciable, enforceable right.
A statement from BT said: "This sanction relates to a period before BT acquired the ESPN UK TV channel.
St Kitts and Nevis passports have also been acquired by corrupt businessmen and Iranians seeking to evade sanctions.
And all these many and varied powers had been acquired without doing violence to republican sentiment, and, while their chief sanction was his personal prestige, they had been solidly buttressed by regular laws.
