Sentence examples for basic rules of law from inspiring English sources
At a time when popular revolutions are sweeping the globe, the United States should be strengthening, not weakening, basic rules of law and principles of justice enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This Comment argues that economic analysis provides an inadequate account of judicial behavior because economic models are incompatible with a jurisprudence that recognizes basic rule-of-law values.
"This has a profound impact on privacy and basic rule of law," said Guy Herbert, general secretary of NO2ID.
By extending its crackdown against peaceful critics to include lawyers, the UAE is making even the basic rule of law impossible.
It is a basic rule of law that a party should not be required to perform a useless act to perfect a cause of action.
"Many Malians see their country's present political and security crisis as an outgrowth of the state's inability to uphold the basic rule of law and to protect the weak from the predations of the powerful," he says.
Young people who grow up in a context of real economic opportunity, basic rule of law and the right to speak and write what they please don't usually want to blow up the world.
Raha Wala, a lawyer for Human Rights First, said the case has repercussions for "every other flawed military commissions case like it", adding: "It's a basic rule of law principle that a defendant can't be prosecuted for acts that were not criminal at the time they were committed".
You get your governance right and clean; get your oversight; the regulatory bodies that look over your banking system and financial system in decent shape; get me a basic rule of law that as a foreigner I can invest in your country, and feel that if there is a dispute between me and a local businessman I can get it adjudicated without having to bribe the judge with a goat.
The laws have already been characterized by critics as "chilling" and "an affront to the basic rule of law".
