Sentences with phrase «individuals on the terror»

On the heels of the deadliest mass shooting in American history, a new report released by the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein reveals disturbing data about how easy it is for individuals on the terror watch list to purchase firearms.

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So it seems that the confusion about how to end the global war on terror starts at the top and trickles down to individual intelligence analysts.

Governance Watch has taken notice of the discussion in the midst of the general Ghanaian public, and wish to add its voice to calls on the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo - Addo, to step his foot on the group and deal with the brutish behavior of groups of individuals who have assumed responsibility on matters of security, visiting mayhem and terror on the lives of innocent Ghanaians.

Even with a court warrant, only individuals convicted of a violent or major crime within the past five years, or those on a terror watch list, would be handed over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Images of war and terror, personal experiences and their effect on the individual all remain recurrent themes.

By 2006, across the West — or at least the populations of the «coalition of the willing» — the War on Terror had transformed people's understanding of the world, and relationships between individuals and the state.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

Recent unsettling world events such as the attempted Turkish coup, French terror attacks, Brexit and now the Trump presidency are having a significant impact on the interest by wealthy individuals and families in alternative residence and citizenship.