Sentence examples for jurisdiction to commit from inspiring English sources

The mother of Amy Gillett, who died after being hit by a driver while training with her Australian cycling teammates in July 2005, thanked the government for becoming the third jurisdiction to commit to the one-metre legislation.

The Isle of Man became the first jurisdiction to commit to UK FATCA on 7 December, last year.

Getting a jurisdiction to commit the land could prove to be the hard part.

When companies use secrecy jurisdictions to commit fraud or to evade sanctions, legal remedies may come as cold comfort.

Nor the data-driven criminal justice initiative that convenes local jurisdictions to commit to empirically measurable reform projects.

The tribunal of 18 world jurists only have jurisdiction to charge those who commit specific crimes that outrage the international community as a whole.

For example, Britain's Computer Misuse Act of 1990 not only criminalizes unauthorized access, it contains a provision that explicitly extends jurisdiction to persons committing such offenses irrespective of where they were located when conducting the attack.

As we do this, the pressure on those nations or jurisdictions that are yet to commit – Panama among them – will also continue unabated.

Five of the six Jesuits were born in Spain, where judges have used the doctrine of universal jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed outside of the country, as they did against the former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

Five of the six Jesuits were born in Spain, where judges have used the doctrine of universal jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed outside of the country, as they did against the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

In the 1950s, Public Law 280 transferred authority for certain tribes to six states, with others following, thereby expanding criminal jurisdiction to cover crimes committed on tribal lands.