Sentences with phrase «sitting head of state»

This Note will explore the emerging issue of sitting head of state immunity.

She said Martin Amidu started toeing this path when he was «relived of his post as Attorney - General after attempting to assault a sitting Head of State.»

Barely a week or so after that, you were relieved of your post as Attorney - General after attempting to assault a sitting Head of State?

Valerie had argued that Martin Amidu began this campaign when he was «relieved of his post as Attorney - General after attempting to assault a sitting Head of State.»

Part II.E reviews the four instances where an international court has pursued charges against sitting heads of state.

Not exact matches

MIKE Young sits at the head of one of Western Australia's fastest growing iron ore producers; he spends much of his time based in a Perth office and is considered one of the state's prominent business

As a result, bilateral ties between the two countries have become highly personalized with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping directing government commissions, sitting officials, and heads of state corporations to develop financial and trade deals — most of which are large - scale, top - down investments of Chinese money into key sectors of the Russian economy.

On an American level, regular conferences take place every time the heads of state sit down to liberalise the market, from Alaska to Tierre del Fuego.

Juxtaposed beside flashes of his successes are images of the Cash museum in a state of disrepair, broken shards of those successes whose significance is now altogether subverted by the figure of Cash himself, sitting at the head of the festal table.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

Which happened when I sat in an Atlanta public school room tutoring three illiterate sixth graders or when I heard stories of refugees who'd suffered loss of home, family separation and violence or when I stood at the U.S. - Mexico border in Tijuana and looked at the endless crosses adorning the wall with the names of those missing or lost after they headed north to the United States.

Things might very well be different, however, with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which on April 11 was empowered, on a permanent basis and over strenuous American objections, to try individuals» including sitting heads «of «state» for geno cide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

A rare evening for me not spent working on a Saturday night meant I could sit at home and shoot the breeze (albeit alone and in my head) about the state of play down at the Emirates and a few conclusions have been drawn.

This would include, for example, a separation of church and state so that the Head of State was not also Head of the Church of England and an end to Bishops sitting as of right in the House of Lstate so that the Head of State was not also Head of the Church of England and an end to Bishops sitting as of right in the House of LState was not also Head of the Church of England and an end to Bishops sitting as of right in the House of Lords.

He was said to have praised Mr Mahama for supervising one of the best transitions in the history of Africa, insisting that his predecessor's conduct should serve as an example worthy of emulation by all sitting African Heads of State when they fail at the polls.

THE battle to determine the standard - bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, on Thursday, shifted to the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, as Governor Timipre Sylva told the five - man panel, headed by Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, that the PDP had invoked its jurisdiction in order to stall hearing of the substantive matter at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

High Court of Justice sitting in Kafanchan, Kaduna State has granted an interim injunction restraining Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El - Rufai from removing District heads...

The EFCC operatives, led by the Zonal Head of the commission, Mr. Ishaq Salihu, were recently in Bayelsa State to enforce an order of interim forfeiture of buildings and other property belonging to Turner by the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt.

UPDATE: Donovan campaign spokeswoman Virginia Lam noted that sitting DAs are barred by the ethical rules of the state DAs Association, which Donovan used to head, from making political endorsements.

A non-governmental organization, Unified Nigeria Youth Forum, on Monday described President Muhammadu Buhari's remark that a lot of Nigerian youths want to sit and do nothing as the worst statement any head of state can make about his people in a foreign land.

Cuomo says governors of competing states acted as though they were «the head of the chambers of commerce», while New York politicians sat back and waited for businesses to come.

The standoff was defused when several state troopers entered the room, and some of the cooler - headed union members urged their colleagues to sit down.

Less than 9 percent of waste in the United States is composted; bags that wind up in the trash head for a landfill, where they sit indefinitely.

I can almost see Time's editors sitting around the conference room table in their crisp shirts — frozen by the possibility of offending subscribers in red states or blue states, or both — finally throwing up their hands and turning the whole conundrum on its head: If these pesky Internet - blogging readers are going to give us hell no matter who we choose, why not just choose them?

What's needed is for the world's cartographers, heads of state, and perhaps whoever's in charge of Google Earth to sit down around a table and finish the job that Lambton, Everest, and company left undone.

Yet this is a two headed beast, with one side charging forward while the other is sitting lame in a state of morose confusion.

Though he insists the race isn't over yet, Democrat Brian Johnson, a TFA alumnus who used to head the organization's Los Angeles region, currently sits 31 votes shy of second place with nearly all of the votes counted in his primary for the state Assembly.

We sat down with Pieter Hogeveen, head of product marketing and operations for Alfa Romeo, at the 2016 New York auto show to talk about re-establishing the Italian automotive brand in the United States.

«The G90 sits at the pinnacle of the Genesis brand and demonstrates how we apply our human - centered values to give our customer true satisfaction in every aspect of the vehicle ownership experience,» stated Woong - Chul Yang, Head of Hyundai Motor R&D Center and Vice Chairman of Hyundai Motor.

No doubt, the slope of the yield curve, as measured by the spread between two - and 10 - year government bonds, has been flattening since 2014 in both Canada and the United States, and the trend has recently intensified: as we headed into December, the curve sat at its flattest level since the Great Recession.

games ™ recently sat down with pioneering developer and head of Double Fine, Tim Schafer, to chat about the state of the indie scene, development and where he's heading next...

Historically, heads of state, both sitting and former, enjoyed absolute immunity because there was no distinction made between immunity afforded to a head of state and the immunity afforded to a sovereign.

Martinez - Fraga and Reetz discussed their book Public Purpose in International Law — Rethinking Regulatory Sovereignty in the Global Era at the event, which was attended by leading lawyers including two Supreme Court justices, one sitting minister and the heads of the committee charged with the selection of counsel for the defense of the state.

A federal district judge can not be presumed to carry around in his head every esoteric rule of the law of the state in which he happens to sit.

It is a treat to sit in their classroom with the heads of American real estate schools, real estate boards and state real estate commissions.