Sentence examples for assert immunity from inspiring English sources

The State Department did not assert immunity, though it ultimately agreed to pay a lawyer in Italy to represent Ms. De Sousa.

And the justice minister, a former leader of the judicial independence movement, publicly dissented, arguing that Mr. Morsi should limit his attempt to assert immunity from judicial oversight to acts only related to protecting the constituent assembly or other elected bodies — something the clarification offered Monday appeared to do.

Despite this judicial finding, and indeed the signature of Rwanda to the UN convention asserting immunity of counsel, the prosecutor emphasised that proceedings would be vigorously pursued.

"Did he at any time assert that immunity?" he asked.

Our government had been trying to assert diplomatic immunity on Davis's behalf, enraging many people in Pakistan.

Some cantonal banks have looked at the possibility of trying to assert sovereign immunity as state-owned enterprises.

And Sioux is owned by an Indian tribe, the Spirit Lake Nation, that can, he said, assert sovereign immunity against private suits.

They range from the mundane — the police's offers and Mr. Strauss-Kahn's requests for food and water and to use a bathroom — to the sometimes coarse realities of the criminal justice system, like his complaints that his handcuffs were too tight and his eventual statement that he would not (in fact, could not) assert diplomatic immunity.

Another potential deep pocket would be the city of Oakland, which probably would assert governmental immunity.

To allow a private contractor to assert sovereign immunity or the government contractor defenses, courts require almost absolute government control of the contractor, while the definition of torture only requires that the government official consented or acquiesced to the private contractor's acts.

And lawyers are emboldened in their claims by the huge losses and obvious errors in judgment at companies that, until recently, confidently asserted their immunity to market turbulence.