Sentence examples for global courts from inspiring English sources

The Hague, where our contributor Chris Schuetze lives, has several global courts and international headquarters — and, therefore, a large and multinational expat population.

It is especially unlikely to at a time when the country is exerting its military power more strenuously, which makes it feel stronger and at the same time highlights the possible vulnerability of its soldiers to global courts.It will be a pity, though, if at least a moderated form of this trade-off cannot eventually be made by America for the international criminal court.

Despite the global court cases, both companies could end up settling the cases, HSBC said in a note.

Burundi appeared set to become first state to withdraw from the Rome statute, the 1998 treaty establishing the global court, after its parliament voted last week to leave.

The blame-America set here promptly suggested we deserved payback for opposing the treaty to allow dictators to haul Americans into a global court.

The United States is not only opposed to the global court, but actively campaigning against it, pressing countries into bilateral deals to exempt Americans.

Implementing institutions that force compliance and penalise violators need to be established, such as a global court to prosecute social, economic and environmental crimes perpetrated by governments, corporations and individuals.

She is empowered to investigate and prosecute suspected perpetrators of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity — massacres, rapes, mutilations, enslavements and other atrocities — in a global court that opened 10 years ago precisely for that purpose.

The annual event took place in the town's Wada district, a week into Japan's first coastal whaling season since a global court halted the better-known Antarctic whaling in March.

Most other opposition figures in Sudan have said little about the case or rallied round the president, describing the global court case as a Western and "Zionist" plot against Sudan.

In that meeting, a parade of ambassadors lambasted the United States for threatening to veto United Nations peacekeeping missions unless the peacekeepers were given a blanket exemption from the jurisdiction of the global court.