Sentences with phrase «military rule which»

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The movie, which weaves together extraordinary feats of engineering and military, environmental and cultural achievements, hit theaters three days before China's rubber - stamp legislature convened to amend the constitution and allow Xi to potentially rule China for life.

Such Constitutional protections have ensured that federal programs such as Medicare, the Veteran Administration's TRICARE system (which provides benefits for active duty members of the military and their families), and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) apply the same rules to everyone they cover.

The exercise was reported in Taiwanese media this week, which speculated it could have been a warning from the United States to China following China's stepped up military presence around Taiwan, the self - ruled island Beijing claims as its own.

Military rule will certainly not improve the nation's 8 % - of - GDP budget hole or its 72 % - of - GDP debt load, which is already well beyond the point that pushed Argentina to default on its international debt obligations back in 2001.

The reason for the celebration is twofold (both dating back to c. 165 BCE): the miraculous military victory of the small, ill - equipped Jewish army over the ruling Greek Syrians, who had banned the Jewish religion and desecrated the Temple; and the miracle of the small cruse of consecrated oil, which burned for eight days in the Temple's menorah instead of just one.»

So just as it would seem to be impossible for any earthly government to exist without a standing military, without violence toward enemies, and without governing rules for order and peace which include death to traitors and some form of capital punishment, so also God had to include such things in the earthly government which He set up in Israel.

Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

They created a ruling institution for purposes of war and government which was based on the division of the empire into military fiefs; a chancery for the preparation of state documents and communication throughout the empire; and a religious institution which, in addition to maintaining the legal and cult services, was expected through the control of education to be an instrument of social cohesion.

Many of the great clubs of England and Scotland have been run by retired military personnel, most notably Muirfield, which was ruled for many years by its imperious secretary, the late P.W.T. (Paddy) Hanmer, who had been a captain in the British navy.

He decried the reluctance of democratically elected lawmakers to remove «the insidious structural impediments to development, which decades of military rule had hoisted upon our nation.»

If it had, Nigerians would have been saved the trauma of the most vicious strain of military rule, spanning 1984 to 1999, not discounting the diarchy from January 1992 to November 1993, during which the freest election in Nigerian history was annulled.

Of special significance is above all Obama's trip to Burma — a country under military rule since the 1960's, which until recently invariably occupied the very far end of any civil liberties ranking.

While their economies are relatively strong, these 12 states have very low state legitimacy (which includes democracy, corruption, political participation, and government effectiveness), fail to protect human rights and the rule of law (including press freedom, civil liberties, and political freedoms), lack a monopoly on the legitimate use of force (including internal conflict, military coups, riots, and protests), and have highly factionalized elites (including power struggles, flawed elections, and defectors).

The duel primary structure dates back to a 2012 ruling in which a federal judge moved the state's congressional - level primary to June in order to comply with the federal MOVE Act, which requires timely access to military and overseas absentee ballots.

Whitney's refusal to rule was holding up the printing of ballots, which needing to be shipped out to military personnel, said McGahay.

The British military ban on gays was overturned in 1999 following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights which stated the ban violated a person's right to a private life.

Spock, Hobson, Jenness, Pulley, and others then filed a case that ultimately made its way to the United States Supreme Court (424 U.S. 828 — Greer, Commander, Fort Dix Military Reservation, et al., v. Spock et al.), which ruled against the plaintiffs.

The APC attracted heavyweight defectors from Mr Jonathan's People's Democratic Party (PDP), which has dominated the political scene since the end of military rule in 1999.

Speaking about a visit to Israel's military courts, and the way Palestinian child detainess are treated, he said «there are three or four things there which completely offend a proper sense of a rule of law....

Sani argued that despite the Federal Government's failure to honour the late Abiola, the June 12, 1993 presidential election that the late businessman won, but which the military junta of General Ibrahim Babangida annulled, laid the foundation for the current democratic rule in the country.

In related news, a response from the Department of Justice on the ruling by Judge Virginia Phillips which overturned the military's DADT policy and the injunction filing from the Log Cabin Republicans is due any time now.

We went through three decades in which we saw brief periods of constitutional rule interrupted by military dictatorships.

He disclosed that during the era of military rule, the growth of the Nigerian Police was stunted which affected the force badly pointing out that the idea of building barracks for policemen apart of huge cost of maintenance, kept the police far from the citizenry.

U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe is expected to rule on the issue of when New York should hold its party primaries, part of an ongoing Department of Justice lawsuit to force the state into complying with the MOVE Act, which governs timely access to military and overseas ballots.

What was meant to be a temporary stay became permanent following the March 1964 coup d'état by the Brazilian military, which ushered in 2 decades of strict military rule and heavy censorship.

What is missing is a clear set of publicly declared rules under which USCYBERCOM will operate, Bronk says, adding, «We can't say there is a cyber command and then not have rules of the road like you do for other areas of military conduct.»

Michael Krepon, co-founder of the Stimson Center, a global peace and security think tank, explains that the code of conduct is modeled on cold war measures such as the Incidents at Sea Agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which in 1972 established rules for military forces operating in close proximity.

State Supreme Court Justice Francis A. Affronti ruled on Feb. 13 that, based on the legislative history and intent of the education law, the unprecedented board action conflicted with the law, which requires school boards to give access to military recruiters «on the same basis» as any other employment or college recruiters.

I think the open road means no rules and responsibilities, no schedule, no obligations, no definite direction - the exact opposite of military life (or prison life which was used as a comparison at some point in the story).

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Escaping the typical tourist trappings of Southeast Asia, we make our way to Burma, which is finally opening up after decades of iron - fisted military rule.

Filmed during the artist's trip to region in 2014, directly before Israel's military operation against Hamas - ruled Gaza, the film portrays footage of everyday life, which cuts intermittently between live action animation.

If you enter a profession or milieu which is governed by certain standards, whether it be medicine, law, science, the military, public service etc — part of the deal is that there have to be very exceptional circumstances for you to break the rules.

A federal judge in Denver ruled last week that the «Stolen Valor Act,» which prohibits people from falsely claiming they have been awarded military decorations and medals, is «facially unconstitutional.»

The rules and regulations which apply to a commercial plane, private plane, and military plane accidents are all quite different and should be handled by an aviation accident attorney who is qualified to represent such cases.

During the past 18 months, the firm represented four families at an inquest into the death of five service personnel killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, which led to a recommendation that safety rules should be reviewed and all military aircraft fitted with flight data recorders.

The WWII era conscious objector cases held that the CO exception to military service is not limited to governmentally - approved religions, but as a general rule, the courts have not ruled that you can simply claim to have a religious belief which is being infringed on and thereby be excempt from the law.

Sam Glover: Yeah, and we're going to have an upcoming podcast dealing with military spouses which will be interesting, who ar lawyers, because they will have had five years of practice but probably not all in the same state and so they also don't get to waive in under the five year rule in most states.

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which hears appeals of rulings from the Court of Military Commission Review, invalidated al Bahlul's conspiracy conviction, but the Circuit reinstated it after an en banc hearing.

Rather, the rule allows the Armed Forces to use and disclose such information only for those military mission purposes which will be published separately in the Federal Register.

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