Sentence examples for courts controlled from inspiring English sources

Local customs received lip service, but the royal courts controlled them and often rejected them as unreasonable or unproved.

For six months, before they were driven out by a US-backed Ethiopian invasion that was accused of having links to al-Qaida, a coalition of sharia courts controlled the city and other parts of southern and central Somalia.

Although his royalist party made him a senator, in part to give him legal protection from courts controlled by Hun Sen, intruders broke into his house while he was abroad in 1999 and beat up his wife.

The courts control police activities in other ways.

But it still leaves the issue of which country's courts control the process.

All of the affected states are so-called judicial foreclosure states, where courts control the interactions of defaulting homeowners and their lenders.

Saying he had failed to meet strict nationality criteria, a court controlled by the former military ruler had barred Mr. Ouattara from running in presidential elections last month.

Celia W. Dugger (NYT) MIDDLE EAST IRAN: REFORMISTS CONDEMN COURT Major reformist parties condemned a hard-line court controlled by the country's supreme leader in a sign of their increasing dissatisfaction with the slow pace of reforms.

The Democratic Party and Mr. Ouattara's party, the Rally of the Republicans, boycotted Sunday's presidential election after a court controlled by the leader of the ruling military junta, Gen. Robert Guei, disqualified their candidates.

Early this month, a court controlled by the general disqualified the candidates of the country's two biggest political parties, leaving only a single well-known opponent and three lightweights with not enough money to buy billboard advertising.

Early this month, a court controlled by General Guei ruled that the candidates of the country's two main parties, the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast and the Rally of the Republicans, were not qualified to run for president.