Sentence examples for legally authoritative from inspiring English sources
The principal reasons for this are the absence of a publicly accessible and morally and legally authoritative means of distinguishing between just and unjust wars, and the absence of an impartial, supranational mechanism for enforcing an asymmetrical code.
A third major criticism of the whole-brain approach at least in its legally authoritative formulation in the United States concerns its conceptual and clinical adequacy.
(FAO, 1999a). 2 Full title - Non-Legally Binding Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests.
The prevailing North-South polarization concerning forests did not permit agreements beyond the text of the "Non-Legally Binding Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests" (the so-called "Forest Principles") and Chapter 11 of Agenda 21 ("Combating deforestation").
Therefore a norm is legally valid (i.e., authoritative) only if its validity does not derive from moral or other evaluative considerations that the law is intended to replace.
Although not legally binding, General Comment 14 is a vital, authoritative, interpretative document for a more practical understanding of the right to health and its implementation.
It is by being intended for common good that law appeals to its subjects' reason, and gives them reason for regarding the law as authoritative and obligatory, morally as well as legally.
There are no authoritative figures about the number of immigrants who were — or were not — in the country legally.
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