The mainland has never renounced the use of force to bring what it considers a breakaway province under its control.
Apple, chafing under what it considers onerous and expensive licensing requirements, has directed its contractors to stop paying Qualcomm until the two sides can reach a new deal.
Under this, it considers the serviceability limit state requirements, which are mainly concerned with the deflection of structures.
It considers the Israeli settlements illegal under international law and has blamed Israel for deliberately hindering the Palestinian economy in the West Bank, Reuters writes.
Rather, it put the onus on the administration to issue an executive order listing the interrogation techniques it considered legal under the existing language of the Geneva Conventions.
It was considered under a procedure that allows 40 minutes of debate and requires a two-thirds vote for passage.
That a leading democracy could quell such expression seems implausible, but nationalism is a potent force, especially when it's considered under threat.
The measure got 220 "yes" votes and 154 opposed, but it was considered under a procedure that required two-thirds support for passage.
In November, the Department of Correction provided the company with what it considered public information under the state law, but denied its request for dates of birth, saying that that information, in the hands of a commercial enterprise, might subject detainees to privacy violations and to identity theft.
In reversing, the Court did not examine the voir dire for evidence of actual prejudice because it considered the trial under review "but a hollow formality" -- the real trial had occurred when tens of thousands of people, in a community of 150,000, had seen and heard the defendant admit his guilt before the cameras.
