Sentences with phrase «by civilized nations»

The Statute of the International Court of Justice — the closest thing modern international law has to a constitution — identifies as sources of international law not just treaties and customs, but also the «general principles of law recognized by civilized nations.»

August 2011 — The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD — a theory long - taught by civilized nations across the world (except America).

It is quite another to call the fight by civilized nations against terrorism, including state sponsored terrorism, an act of terrorism itself whether you agree with the fight or not.

Not exact matches

Few nations were to all appearance more effectively put down: exhausted by successive defeats in war, reduced to a mere remnant, deported to distant countries, subjected to the long - continued domination of alien and highly civilized Great Powers.

This is carried on by modern Muslims in their countries which are not moral but hopefully not our civilized nations.

Widowed in 1829, he followed his great contemporaries Goethe (1832), Hegel (1831) and Schleiermacher (1834) into eternity on March 8, 1835, mourned by his brother Alexander (who was to survive him for nearly a quarter - century), by his nation and by his friends and admirers throughout the civilized world.

Not only have natural disasters such as earthquakes occurred; atrocities of apocalyptic dimensions have been committed by the so - called civilized nations.

For a disease that was «preventable by ordinary intelligence and careful training,» he wrote, «these figures were a reproach to civilized nations.»

Actually, I am finding it distressing that the whole nation is being held hostage by the mindless, led by the gutless, egged on by the clueless, and orchestrated by those who lack scruples, ethics, and morals, but who nevertheless have the necessary greed and money to exercise their total disregard for rational civilized behavior.