Sentence examples for justice abroad from inspiring English sources

But many wonder at the apparent disconnect between American support for justice abroad and Obama's determination to "look forward not backward" at home.

As agencies whose key mandate is to improve social justice abroad, we seem to have a double standard here at home, fearing unions rather than embracing them.

But the right-wing government's disinterest in determining these suspects' guilt or innocence suggests that it is more concerned with courting anti-immigrant and law-and-order conservatives at home than with the fight for justice abroad.

We know that real security depends not just on justice abroad, but creating good jobs at home; not just on securing our borders, but strengthening Social Security and Medicare at home; not just on bringing governments together, but creating a government here at home that lives within its means, cuts wasteful spending and invests in the future.

In Spain, on January 17, Judge Baltasar Garzon, who has advanced the frontiers of justice abroad by prosecuting war criminals - like former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and members of the former military junta in Argentina - went on trial for doing the same at home.

But the American legal system is more responsive to popular concerns about crime and attitudes about punishment, while justice systems abroad tend to be administered by career civil servants rather than elected legislators, prosecutors and judges.

"We face difficult challenges at home and abroad," Justice O'Connor said in a statement.

Rule of law and justice programmes supported abroad by the UK stand at a critical juncture.

The activists also demanded that officials reveal whether they secretly hold foreign passports, an increasingly common practice that in recent years has helped thousands of corrupt civil servants escape Chinese justice by fleeing abroad with their ill-gotten loot.

The conduct in this case happened abroad, Justice Breyer wrote, and "based solely upon the defendants' minimal and indirect American presence," it would be "far-fetched to believe" the case "helps to vindicate a distinct American interest".

And if Gaddafi is captured alive, whether he will be tried at home or abroad, justice will be served; and the impunity so often enjoyed by dictators of the past will find itself in "the dustbin of history".