Sentences with phrase «against the civilian deaths»

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We must weigh the devastation of Iraq (even if there were no civilian deaths) and the promise of decades of future trouble in the region against the evil of failing to reverse promptly the August 2 annexation.

I'm against the U.S. drone strikes that have resulted in the deaths of civilians.

It was not a mistake for Obama to mention those red lines, because the use of chemical weapons against civilians does send the conflict towards an entirely new level of suffering and death.

Carr was referring to the July 2015 decision by Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Alice Schlesinger, who ruled in favor of the Legal Aid Society, which had sought a summary of the accusations that were lodged against Officer Daniel Pantaleo prior to Garner's death in 2014 and substantiated by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

The city's Civilian Complaint Review Board moved Wednesday to substantiate an excessive - force claim against the «chokehold» cop involved in the 2014 death of Eric Garner on Staten Island, a source said.

In spite of a troop surge and the launch of new operations against the Taliban last year, the data provided by the UN show a 26 % drop in civilian deaths caused by military forces.

UN Security Council will adopt Resolution 1566 in 2004 and gives a definition of terrorism as «criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.»

In R (on the application of Al - Skeini) v Secretary of State for Defence — which arose from complaints against the UK about the deaths of six Iraqi civilians — the Law Lords ruled by a four to one majority that HRA 1998 applied overseas, including detention centres over which British troops had «effective control».

Terrorism includes criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provide a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population, or compel a government of international organization to do or to abstain from doing an act.

Terrorism includes criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provide a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population, or compel a government or international organization to do or to abstain from doing an act.