Sentences with phrase «proportional use of force»

They specify «assemblies, demonstrations, internal disturbances, tensions and states of emergency» as discrete categories of potential violence and emphasise state responsibility for legal, necessary, limited and proportional use of force.

The probability of success is an important just war principle; another is proportional use of force.

Not exact matches

The mainstream of Christian ethics has contended that there can be a legitimate or «just» use of military force — legitimacy being determined by a variety of factors, such as the presence of a «just cause,» «right authority,» «last resort,» and the use of «means proportional to the end.»

Fourth, the use of force must be proportional, that is to say, relevant to the issue and not doing more harm than good.

Most after market add - on controllers use a timer or proportional load basis to calculate the amount of brake force required.

When the band center approaches saturation, the forcing by farther changes in CO2 becomes approximately logarithmically proportional to CO2, because there is a certain amount of band - widening per doubling while the height / depth of the hill / valley in BT stays constant (for the simplifying conditions we've used).

For the forced response, I'll use the framework for discussing the transient climate response in post # 4 in which the forcing is balanced by the radiation to space and heat uptake, both of which are assumed to be proportional to:.

«The Earth's climate system is highly nonlinear: inputs and outputs are not proportional, change is often episodic and abrupt, rather than slow and gradual, and multiple equilibria are the norm... there is a relatively poor understanding of the different types of nonlinearities, how they manifest under various conditions, and whether they reflect a climate system driven by astronomical forcings, by internal feedbacks, or by a combination of both... [We] suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies... It is imperative that the Earth's climate system research community embraces this nonlinear paradigm if we are to move forward in the assessment of the human influence on climate.»