Sentence examples for of the legal code from inspiring English sources
He also recommended reforms of the legal code that would have made the law the impersonal embodiment of justice rather than the arbitrary dictates of despotic regimes.
Much of the legal code has remained intact since the British imperial era, when laws were devised to control the population and protect the colonialist power structure.
Basil hoped to make a complete revision of the legal code, but only a preliminary textbook (Procheiron) with an introduction (Epanagoge) appeared during his reign.
Clinton has called offshore tax havens "a perversion" of the legal code, and Obama called for reform of the international system earlier this month.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Human Rights Watch urged Indonesia on Wednesday to overturn Shariah laws in the conservative province of Aceh, saying the application of the legal code of Islam has resulted in widespread rights abuses.
Its dominant Islamists said from the outset that they would not try to impose controversial clauses, such as enshrining Islamic sharia law as a key component of the legal code.
"We must keep the Shariah," added the man, Gholam Muhammad, referring to the legal code of Islam based on the Koran.
"The council believes that the text passed by the Parliament is contrary to the Shariah and the Constitution," the radio said, referring to the legal code of Islam based on the Koran.
"Bin Laden's call to jihad has no legitimacy whatsoever from the point of view of Sharia law," he said, referring to the legal codes of Islam.
Rather than developing strong platforms of their own, secular opposition parties like Ettajdid have focused their campaign efforts almost exclusively on fear mongering, raising the specter of an Iranian-style Islamist takeover and the imposition of Shariah, the legal code of Islam.
Nigeria's federal government, under President Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that it opposes the use of Shariah, the legal code of Islam based on the Koran, in criminal cases but is powerless to act against the states that have adopted it.
