Sentences with phrase «by agents of the state»

Yet within sight, sound, and stink of these things men and women were murdered by the agents of the state, perhaps because they had told an unwise joke about the regime, perhaps for no reason at all.

The Kirchners pushed to restart criminal trials against members of the military junta — for a variety of reasons, prior attempts to bring to justice those responsible for the disappearance, torture and murder of over 30,000 people by agents of the state were first halted and later resulted in amnesty.

Speaking further, he said, «The PDP is aware of clandestine plots against key opposition leaders, particularly members of the PDP National Working Committee, some dissenting members of the APC, members of the civil society, opinion leaders, journalists and bloggers, who refuse to succumb to intimidation and that such persons have already been listed and currently being trailed by agents of the state.

It (hopefully) solves the «racist problem» and it would remove any lingering doubt about the compatibility of our law of self - defence with Art 2 (right to life) of the European Convention on Human Rights, which anticipates that any mistakes made by agents of the state should be based on reasonable grounds (see Caraher v United Kingdom (Application 24520 / 94) and 157 NLJ 7261, pp 286 — 87).

In most legal systems, prosecution by an agent of the state has gradually superseded private prosecution.

Not exact matches

Barriers to entry: While an agent's license is required by a state's labor commissioner, the amount of capital needed to launch a startup in the space is low.

The bill forbids local authorities from working with federal agents, including using «agency money, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to assist a federal agency to investigate, detain, detect, report, or arrest a person for commercial or noncommercial marijuana or medical cannabis activity that is authorized by law in the State of California.»

According to the Minerva research team at Georgia State University, the 2014 expansion of IS» so - called Caliphate was foretold by «Wiki Baghdady» - a Jihadi insider, but more than likely an al - Qaida agent - who predicted IS would amass multiple group allegiances and then announce them simultaneously in order to project power and influence.

Every day when I boot up my company - issued laptop, I am greeted by a warning: «This computer system is the property of Time Inc. and is intended for use by employees and authorized agents of Time Inc. in accordance with its stated policies.

Clinton continued to face scrutiny over her use of a private email server as Secretary of State, burdened anew after an announcement in late October by FBI Director James Comey that agents would examine newly discovered emails to determine if they were relevant to an investigation he had previously announced as closed without charges.

But Comey is also falling into Trump's trap by inadvertently feeding Trump's narrative that all of his legal troubles are the result of a «Deep State» plot by FBI agents out to get him.

Ken Wilcox, chairman emeritus of Silicon Valley Bank, said in the past six months he had been approached by three different Chinese state - owned enterprises about being their agent in Northern California to buy technology, though he declined.

Founded by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 1997, the organization trains and mentors women leaders as agents of transformative change in economic development, human rights and political participation.

In Florida, title insurance premiums are set by the state, but the agent's portion of the total as well as agency fees are variable.

The whistleblower who exposed Russia's systematic doping of Olympic athletes has been warned by U.S. officials that Russian agents may be inside the United States looking for him and that new security measures needed to be taken to insure his safety, the lawyer for the whistleblower tells Yahoo News.

We've published these licenses on our website in a public directory that lists each license by agent, state, and line of coverage.

Rockcoons at first assured the agent, who went by «Nima,» that he was aware of federal anti-money laundering requirements, as well as reporting requirements when cash transactions exceed $ 10,000, the affidavit states.

As proposed by New Keynesian economist and Ph. D. Huw Dixon, there are three properties to a state of equilibrium; the behavior of agents is consistent, no agent has an incentive to change its behavior, and that the equilibrium is the outcome of some dynamic process.

Indeed, by late February, the world's biggest ETF, the SPDR Gold Trust, which has a net balance in excess of $ 30 billion, had announced through its marketing agent State Street Global Markets that the fund had been certified by Amanie Advisors, a leading Shari'ah advisory firm, to be fully compliant to the new Shari'ah standard.

WASHINGTON — State Farm Insurance says it will not be accepting liability under the Best Interest Contract (BIC) on the sale of annuities or mutual funds by the more than 12,000 of its agents throughout the U.S. who have licenses to sell securities.

Russia has never officially acknowledged having Novichok, but documents found in the massive leak of State Department cables published by Wikileaks show Great Britain and its allies worried about the deadly nerve agent for years.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

If, however, «intention» is taken to refer to the intrinsic teleology of an action, with the teleology of that action being only partially constituted by the agent's mental states, then the action one performs may carry its own intention in a way that no amount of refined planning on the agent's part can do away with.

When the state imposes prison or fines, it acts as the agent and enforcer of normal social justice, with powers derived from and limited by the social contract of its citizens.

The second type of self - consciousness is termed by Duvall and Wicklund «objective self - consciousness» and is the state in which the causal agent self is taken as the object of consciousness.

«The unsupervised counseling received by young women... by patriarchal figures (who were agents and employees of IBLP) was a standard part of IBLP programs and activities,» states the lawsuit.

An applicant for certification may appeal a certifying agent's notice of denial of certification, and a certified operation may appeal a certifying agent's notification of proposed suspension or revocation of certification to the Administrator, Except, That, when the applicant or certified operation is subject to an approved State organic program the appeal must be made to the State organic program which will carry out the appeal pursuant to the State organic program's appeal procedures approved by the Secretary.

(2) Does not require compliance with any production or handling practices other than those provided for in the Act and the regulations in this part as a condition of use of its identifying mark: Provided, That, certifying agents certifying production or handling operations within a State with more restrictive requirements, approved by the Secretary, shall require compliance with such requirements as a condition of use of their identifying mark by such operations.

(c) Persons subject to the Act who believe that they are adversely affected by a noncompliance decision of a certifying agent may appeal such decision to the Administrator, Except, That, when the person is subject to an approved State organic program, the appeal must be made to the State organic program.

The statute goes further, becoming all - encompassing as it states, «nor shall such manufacturer distributor, importer, primary American source of supply, brand owner or brand registrant or any broker, sales agent or sales person thereof, (a / k / a industry members) assist any vendor by any gifts or loans of money or property of any description or by the giving of any rebates of any kind whatsoever.»

This was reported by Spanish news outlet Fichajes, who state that the player's agent, Jonathan Barnett, had said that Bale «wants to play the rest of his life at Real Madrid».

During an investigation into the conduct of sports agents by the North Carolina Secretary of State, former UNC football player Marvin Austin admitted that he received money while in college from a man named Terry Watson.

The Miami case is embarrassing, but so is the 2012 Penn State case, the Reggie Bush USC sanctions, the separation of agents from their future clients, the random declarations of ineligibility, the year waiting period between transfers, the regulation of student - athlete endorsements and use of their own likenesses in products, the rules governing recruiting at any level, and a hundred other daily absurdities fostered by the need to keep money out of the hands of those who earn it.

Their bucolic distillery, as described by a state treasury agent named W. George McMullen in his self - published memoir, Twenty - Eight Years a T - Man, maintained a production capacity of 400 gallons of corn liquor.

It is being reported by German news outlet Bild that agent of 17 - year - old Hamburg starlet Jann - Fiete Arp, Jurgen Milewski, has stated that the Blues aren't close to signing the Bundesliga ace, despite the fact that the Mirror were reporting that Antonio Conte's side were closing in on a deal for the player.

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It still remains uncertain if Juventus is willing to offload Paul Pogba as contradictory rumors have been emerging with some stating that the Italian club is indeed open on selling Pogba but according to a statement that was released by the agent of Pogba, Mino Raiola said that the player would be 99 % staying in Italy for at least another season.

The HSE Clinical Practice Guidelines on Prevention and Management of Primary Postpartum Haemorrhage state that for «women without specific risk factors for PPH delivering vaginally, oxytocin (10 iu by intramuscular injection) is the agent of choice for prophylaxis in the third stage of labour.

A study published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) states that «the use of antibacterial agents to clean and dry the stump of the newborns» umbilical cord (UC) after birth has been abandoned by many neonatal units in favor of dry cord care.»

Ecologically sustainable bamboo forests grown for fabric production do not require the use of pesticides or anti-fungal agents, and the fabric produced from bamboo kills 99.8 percent of germs that cause the potentially deadly Staph infection, along with many other dangerous microbes, according to a study by North Carolina State University's College of Textiles.

The nation was last Wednesday terrified by the commission's Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Mr. Oluwole Osaze - Uzzi, who announced that INEC registered minors because its agents were threatened by members of the communities in those States.

Chukwu denied reports credited to the Uchenna Madu faction of MASSOB that the elections were put off by Uwazuruike for fear of arrest by security agents over an agreement he allegedly signed with the federal government to abandon the struggle for the actualization of an independent state of Biafra.

«Either this was a direct act by the Russian state against our country, or the Russian government lost control of this potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get in the hands of others,» May said.

Changing global configurations of power also suggest that it is increasingly difficult to pin down agents, such as a particular state or a particular government within a state, that could be held responsible for the conditions within which people attempt to craft their lives or which people try to change by moving.

Led by Roy Stone, Private Secretary to the Chief Whip and Mike Winter, Head of the Leader of the House's office, they operate in the dark, agents of the secret state of the most over-centralised political system in the Western world without so much as a Parliamentary Business Committee (promised but not delivered by the last government) to hold them to account.

Grassroots, one of Buffalo's most influential political organizations that is already under scrutiny by federal and state law enforcement agents, failed to file required financial disclosure reports, and its offshoot, Be the Change, didn't file, either.

The term refers to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1947 to 1956 and characterized by heightened political repression as well as a campaign spreading fear of Communist influence on American institutions and of espionage by Soviet agents.

This states that «if a candidate or election agent knowingly makes the declaration required by this section falsely, he shall be guilty of a corrupt practice».

The P DP youth leader said photos on social media showing that he was stabbed to death by one, «Ibrahim M Okene», was the handwork of agents of the state hired to carry out the nefarious act.

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