Sentence examples for lawful force from inspiring English sources
However, international codes and declarations gain tangible lawful force for individuals when they are adopted into domestic laws.
Lawful killing: If you conclude that it was more likely than not that the fatal shot which killed Mark Duggan was the use of lawful force – then you would return a conclusion of lawful killing.
The report concluded there was "no credible evidence" to uphold complaints by Duggan's family that police had relocated the firearm in the sock, that officer V53 did not fire live shots in the belief Duggan was pointing a firearm at him, and that he did not use lawful force.
(Alternatively a police officer may use lawful force to prevent crime. Here two points arise: Did V53 shoot Mark Duggan in order to prevent crime; and Was the force used reasonable or unreasonable in all the circumstances?) Only if you are sure that Mr Duggan was killed unlawfully will you come to this conclusion and record it as such.
"I am confident that a careful and objective analysis of available audio and video evidence will demonstrate unlawful and active resistance by Petrov, and the use of lawful force by the deputies to take him into custody".
The status of the guerrilla forces which Lord Carrington finally accepted as "lawful forces," while at the same time refusing to accord them an equal status with the white Rhodesian ones.
"How can we allow the world to see lawful forces in charge of Marja next to fields full of opium, which one way or another will be harvested and turned into a poison that kills people all over the world?" said Zulmai Afzali, the spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Counternarcotics.
Mr. Ready, though, described the group in a 2010 interview as "the Minuteman Project on steroids," made up of "people with assault weapons" willing to use "lawful, deadly force when appropriate".
"[S]ubstances are to be understood as enjoying a lawful primitive force of action whereby accidents emanate from the substance, from within" (Cover & O'Leary-Hawthorne, 181).
She resigned on 20 March 2003 because she did not believe it was lawful to use force against Iraq.
As I wrote in this paper on 17 March 2003: "flawed advice does not make the unlawful use of force lawful".
