Sentence examples for principles of proportionality from inspiring English sources

This pledge includes the principles of proportionality, distinction and humane treatment of captured combatants".

This article assesses American public attitudes toward the just war principles of proportionality, due care and distinction.

Numerous treaties and judgments from the Geneva conventions onwards set out quite detailed rules governing the use of force, including the principles of proportionality and civilian immunity.

The proposed legislation also lays down the fundamental principles of proportionality, progressiveness and equal treatment, applicable to the legal consequences imposed on the violating media entities.

Cameron said in the statement: "The strike was conducted according to specific military rules of engagement which always comply with international law and the principles of proportionality and military necessity.

Israel's reactions to Hamas' attacks were defensive, and thus justifiable in the first instance as a matter of jus ad bellum; whether the choice of mean violated principles of proportionality is a complicated question.

The IAALS wants stronger enforcement of the principle of proportionality.

The court shares our view that a continued detention complies with the principle of proportionality".

The Principle of Proportionality Under International Humanitarian Law and Operation Cast Lead, by Robert P. Barnidge Jr.

Yet today we have numerous sanctions without due process, and the principle of proportionality has been lost.

Israeli doctrine eschews the principle of proportionality in favour of massive retaliation, as has been amply demonstrated in Lebanon and Gaza.