Sentence examples for citizens courts from inspiring English sources

Thanks to the actions of citizens, courts, and the Department of Justice, by November 2012, all the worst measures had been reversed, blocked, or blunted.

Almost 60 years after its founding, the European project needs a resounding narrative for itself, something to restore the confidence of citizens courted by populists of all stripes.

Russians have adopted the Web not only as a public sphere for debate but also as a refuge of last resort, a citizens' court to vent anger at and post evidence of official malfeasance.

Instituted nationally in 2005 by the Rwandan government, these citizen courts try Hutu accused of the 1994 slaughter of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu.

Over the past few years his views persuaded several courts to limit citizen court access in environmental cases.

4.30pm BST: With several of the alleged spies claiming Canadian citizenship, the Canadian Press reports, via the CBC: The defendants known as Donald Howard Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley claim to be born in Canada, while Patricia Mills claims to be a Canadian citizen, court papers filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York showed.

Alexy has pointed out the confusions and inconsistencies in Kant's attempts to evade the classic position that laws whose injustice is sufficiently grave can and should be denied to have the legal character predicable of laws that citizens and courts, precisely as courts, are morally and juridically entitled to treat as or as if they are—not law.

The administration argues that eavesdropping on American citizens without court approval is justified and essential to the security of the country.

The F.B.I.'s recent history includes the abuse of national security letters to gather information about law-abiding citizens without court orders, and inappropriate investigations of antiwar and environmental activists.

"The Pussy Riot singers colluded under unestablished circumstances, for the purpose of offensively violating public peace in a sign of flagrant disrespect for citizens," the court said in a verdict being pronounced on Friday.

Secret Programs When President George W. Bush secretly began the N.S.A.'s warrantless wiretapping program in October 2001, to listen in on the international telephone calls and e-mails of American citizens without court approval, the program was accompanied by large-scale data mining operations.