"Aside from the civil liberties dimension, there's an invitation here to the president to go on indefinitely with warrantless surveillance," said William C. Banks, a law professor at Syracuse University.
King, the son of a police officer, also rejected the notion there was a racial or civil rights dimension to Garner's treatment by the NYPD and took aim at African Americans civil rights leaders representing the families of Garner, Brown and a string of other victims of alleged police brutality in recent months.
The U.S. government announced Wednesday the indictment of 21-year-old Dylann Roof on federal hate-crime charges, adding a civil rights dimension to the state murder charges already filed by South Carolina authorities in the June 17 killing of nine African American worshipers in Charleston.
Its exact dimensions, divisions, and duration can be measured and described in any number of ways: its turning, tabulated with reference to the sun, the moon, the stars, as well as civil and societal convention.
Specific civil-law dimensions will be under the responsibility of the Commissioner for Justice, Vice-President Reding.
The Global Democracy Ranking measures the quality of democracy using a political dimension (civil liberties, gender political equality, press freedom, transparency and alternation of power) for 50percentt of the score — then tabulates five non-political dimensions for the other half of the score.
Students learn geometry by studying field dimensions, civil rights history through the struggles of Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali, biology by examining anatomy and sports injuries.
We investigate law, media discourse, and civil society as dimensions of the public sphere, and use the analysis to draw out broader implications for energy transitions.
Difference between mainly Shia Iran and mainly Sunni Saudi Arabia have been exacerbated by the sectarian dimension of civil wars in Syria and Iraq, and by ongoing unrest and protests in Yemen and Bahrain.
In a reflection of the growing new dimension of civil strife, a senior U.S. intelligence official said yesterday that the militia of radical Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr has grown eightfold over the past year and now fields 40,000 to 60,000 men.
