Sentence examples for foreign act of state from inspiring English sources

In the high court last year, Mr Justice Simon dismissed Belhaj's claim, citing the "foreign act of state doctrine".

Lawyers for Straw and the government's security and intelligence agencies claim they should be protected by the so-called "foreign act of state doctrine".

Challenging the government's deployment of the foreign act of state doctrine, Kaufmann said the conduct of both British and foreign states was routinely used as evidence in both asylum and extradition cases both in the UK and overseas.

The extraordinary prospect of senior figures dodging their alleged liability for abductions and torture by deploying the "foreign act of state doctrine" in criminal proceedings emerged during a civil claim brought by Libyan and Pakistani former detainees.

The civil case being heard by seven supreme court justices on Monday will assess whether the foreign act of state doctrine should prevent Belhaj's claim being pursued on the grounds that it would involve other countries.

Last year, the court was confronted with the prospect of Straw and British intelligence officers deploying the "foreign act of state doctrine" – that is to say, the courts here cannot rule on the case since agents from foreign countries, notably the US and Libya, were involved, and they are granted immunity.

Lawyers for the Foreign Office tried to resist his claim on the grounds "act of state doctrine", arguing that the UK courts could not inquire into what happened because it also involved agents from a foreign state, namely the US.

Big state universities also act as magnets drawing "foreign", out-of-state academics, artists and their wannabe students away from their natural habitats on the coasts, counteracting to some degree the polarward drift of right-leaning states.

Pinter had become an increasingly vocal political activist, culminating in his Nobel Lecture, in which he admonished the United States government for its foreign policy, especially involving Iraq, and its moral dereliction: "The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.

The provisions were applied in domestic law through the Mexican Foreign Investment Act of 1993, which repealed the previously restrictive 1973 Act to Promote Mexican Investment and Regulate Foreign Investment.

Health has long been intertwined with the foreign policies of states.