Sentence examples for jurist which from inspiring English sources

In a show of force, mobs destroyed Sanei's office as they chanted "death to anyone opposed to velayat-e-faqih" — the "Guardianship of the Jurist," which places a leader interpreting God's word atop republican institutions.

Aside from his bona fides as a lawyer and a jurist — which may all but guarantee a favorable vote in the Senate — Gorsuch has cultivated something of an expertise in assisted suicide and euthanasia in his legal career.

This will not be solved unless the regime recognizes the rights of citizenship and of the people, hence abolishing the doctrine of "velayate faqih" (the rule of the Jurist) which has been the linchpin of the regime since Khomeini.

Their camp has adopted a slogan, "Long Live Spring", that brings to mind the Arab uprisings of 2011.The president is trying to make it hard for the Council of Guardians, a body of clerics and lay jurists which weeds out undesirable candidates, to disqualify Mr Mashaei after the formal registration of candidates starts next month.

In 1956 my father, Professor Arthur Goodhart, who was then the master of University College, persuaded Marsh to take leave of absence from Oxford to become the secretary-general of the International Commission of Jurists, which had been founded in 1952 and was then based in The Hague.

"The Fars news agency also reported that the partial recount of votes ordered Tuesday by the Guardian Council, the 12-member body of jurists which supervises elections and holds veto power over legislation in Iran, had begun.

Marsh was for many years a member of the council of Justice, which acts as the British section of the International Commission of Jurists.

Khomeini imposed a doctrine known as wilayat al-faqih (rule by the jurist) under which the final arbiter of political power should be the cleric best qualified properly to understand (that phrase again) the true meaning of Islamic law and tradition.

Lee, the first Korean-American Article III federal judge appointed to the Northern District of Illinois, spoke as part of the Law School's Edward H. Levi Distinguished Visiting Jurist program, which was created six years ago to support interactions between the judges and the school's faculty and students.

He is practising the tradition of taqiya, endorsed by some Islamic jurists, in which a Muslim could dissimulate his secret faith.

The 2013 report of an independent international commission of jurists, of which I was a member, concluded that, pilot error, though unproven, was the default explanation of the 1961 crash at Ndola in which Dag Hammarskjöld died.