Sentence examples for security precedents from inspiring English sources

As Donald Trump gets closer to locking up the Republican nomination and therefore one step closer to the presidency, it's worth looking back at one of the Obama administration's most troubling legacies: specifically, the national security precedents that have allowed the US to spy on countless people and kill without accountability.

Mr Koh could well have been the "strongest and most effective advocate" for "human rights principles relating to the use of drones" and nevertheless also have been a key legal architect of a programme that has done "structural damage to the cornerstones of international security and set precedents that undermine the protection of life across the globe in the longer term," as a UN report put it.

If successful, the prosecution will establish a chilling precedent: national security leaks may subject the leakers to a capital prosecution or at least life imprisonment.

Some said the police had considered publicly available materials that the scholars had gathered or used in their academic work to be "harmful to national security" -- a worrisome precedent in the academic world.

It looked like Imperial College had lost its liberal bearings: a ban on hijab at one of Britain's foremost universities would have set a dangerous precedent (College security ban on hijabs and hoodies, November 24).

It should be possible for Mr. Starr to conduct an effective inquiry without damaging Presidential security or setting a precedent for questioning the agents who guard the President most closely.

In the House, top Republicans were urging their members to focus on what they say is a legitimate need for border security money and the precedent set by other presidents who have declared their own national emergencies, according to one Republican aide.

While such activity may seem blatantly illegal, there are holes in securities laws and legal precedents that prevent the case from being a slam dunk.

There are enough precedents for the security council, under its chapter VII power, to act so as to avoid international conflict, to set up a court to research and punish the carefully planned assassination of a journalist in a member state by agents of another member state.

The Nunn-Lugar initiative can serve as a valuable precedent in addressing security problems in Pakistan.

Mr. Wroblewski said an especially important aspect of the agreement was its job security provisions, which he called "precedent setting".