Sentence examples for local jurists from inspiring English sources

Until the 9th or 10th century, it remained commercially insignificant and was notable mainly for the careers of two local jurists, al-Awzāʿī (d. 774) and al-Makḥūl (d. 933).

What many of them had hoped for was something like the United Nations Sierra Leonee war crimes court -- a "hybrid" proceeding that would be set in Iraq and staffed mostly with international attorneys and judges, along with as many local jurists as possible.

It should instead support an internationally sanctioned tribunal based on the model of the one in Sierra Leone, which uses a mix of local and international jurists.

Prominent local lawyer and jurist.

"In Guatemala, criminal organizations had never been confronted," the first director of the panel, the Spanish jurist Carlos Castresana, told a local television station in March.

Roman jurists also show a concern for local languages such as Punic, Gaulish, and Aramaic in assuring the correct understanding and application of laws and oaths.

Al Mukalla, where AQAP recently struck a deal with local tribesman to hand over local authority to the Sunni Jurist Council, is a case in point.

Decisive for the reception, however, was the superiority of the specialized training of Roman-law jurists over the empiricist methods of lay judges and practitioners of the local laws.

That report, by a committee chaired by Richard Goldstone, a South African jurist, was said in Israel to have received a great deal of help from local nonprofit groups that live largely on foreign government donations.

Now we have a few of the borough's jurists admitting that they had been given a list of lawyers approved for them by the local Democratic machine.

They are protecting it in much the same way that leading jurists of the 1960's, like Frank M. Johnson Jr., the Alabama federal judge, did with powerful rulings that curbed biased, overreaching local officials.