In contemplating what justice system response would reduce the burdens on surviving family members and maximize opportunities for emotional, physical and spiritual recovery, I suggest that a marathon, contested capital trial and sentencing proceeding may be the least well designed judicial intervention.
ON a brilliant afternoon last May, a constellation of political and artistic luminaries from Israel and America gathered on the lumpy asphalt of a parking lot in a dreary corner of this ancient, contested capital.
IS has lost towns in both Iraq and Syria, but though under strain it has proved resilient: in May it pushed the Iraqi army out of the town of Ramadi, the long-contested capital of Anbar province, and evicted the Syrian army from the oasis town of Palmyra.
Iranian reformers won 26 of the 30 seats contested in the capital in legislative elections, Tehran radio reported today, confirming that they will take control of Parliament for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
In this period of transformation, every week has been punctuated with the poignant formality of Friday prayers, including broadcast scenes of masses of Muslims prostrate in orderly rows across vast squares in every contested Arab capital.
The two were interested in growing the city and had reasoned that, rather than try to influence legislatures to locate the heavily contested territory capital in Norman, it made sense to attempt to secure the state's first university instead (a move that would be far less controversial).
In a striking measure of personal popularity, her party captured all the seats contested in Naypyidaw, the new capital city built by the former military junta and populated largely by government employees.
Zamora, Spain Alfonso III, byname Alfonso the Great, Spanish Alfonso El Magno (born c. 838 died 910?, Zamora, Leon), king of Asturias from 866 to 910, son of Ordoño I. Winning a contested succession, he moved his capital forward from Oviedo to the recently restored Roman city of León.
The team's task involves the dangerous job of traveling from relatively secure, government-controlled areas of central Damascus to contested areas east of the capital where armed rebels are heavily active.
The operational definition and measurement of social capital remains somewhat contested.
Although social capital is an 'essentially contested' concept like race, class and gender [ 8], some authors distinguish three basic types including bonding, bridging and linking social capital.
