America is taking risks with the rule of law, but China has a long way to go before it becomes a country ruled by law.

Article 5

2. Questions concerning matters governed by this Law which are not expressly settled in it are to be settled in conformity with the general principles on which this Law is based.

First, we understand that both the Convention and the Protocol will not apply in situations governed by international humanitarian law.

Shi Tao, in his jail cell, was undoubtedly pleased to learn that China is ruled by law, not by the Communist Party.

Thus, there existed a possibility in which personnel covered by the Convention would be engaged in hostilities that would be governed by international humanitarian law.

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Article 2 of the amended Constitution provides that the State of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam is a law governed and socialist State of the people, by the people and for the people every citizen, regardless of sex, ethnicity and social strata, is equal before the law women's rights non discriminated in any forms continue to be upheld and protected by the law.

Gaza is ruled by a completely hostile regime.

Alexander Dubcek, the leader of the Czechoslovak communists and the symbol of the Prague Spring, personified hope for democratic evolution, real pluralism, and a peaceful way to a state governed by law and respectful of human rights.

They should urge the Kosovo government to mount a credible investigation, for the sake of the victims and people in Kosovo who want their state to be ruled by law.

But, since 1994, its lawless southern islands have replaced Afghanistan as the main training ground and refuge for Southeast Asian jihadists.

The Constitution of the Niger provides for a dual executive

the relations between an international organization and its member States and between an international organization and its agents should be more generally governed by international law, an integral part of which is the rules of the organization.

If a hunt for agents had been organized in 1990 when the democratic revolution began, neither Leszek Balcerowicz s economic reforms nor the establishment of a state governed by law would have been possible.

Those actions represented solid progress along the path of establishing equality, and reflected the Government's political will to establish a democratic, modern State governed by the rule of law, and to promote a culture of human rights in which the rights of women were a key component.

That choice boils down to an unbearable cynicism or a totalitarian utopia.

We live in societies ruled by law, and all Member States of the United Nations having signed the International Pacts concerning Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Concerning Civil and Political Rights of 1966 accept this.

It was ruled by the Akkadian Empire from 2334 BC until 2154 BC.

Indeed, regulatory agencies like the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) arose because common law fiduciary duties failed to protect distant owners.

One should have expected the right wing to be punished in countries where they govern.

The new bonds, other than those governed by Argentine law, will include Collective Action Clauses (CACs).

As Francis Fukuyama has pointed out, the development of a capable state that is accountable and ruled by law is one of the crowning achievements of human civilization. It involves the creation of a shared sense of us, an imagined community on whose behalf the state acts.

The United States remains a democracy governed by a constitution and the rule of law, with pluralistic media, yet there are disturbing signs that the propaganda methods Orwell described have taken root here.

The poem tells the story of a city ruled by a personification of Death using common elements from Gothic fiction.

Military strategists have known for centuries that there is, and can be, no final science of war.

It had a new, charismatic president, who was known as an Anglophile and a cosmopolitan spirit.

The eastern portion of Heilongjiang was ruled by the kingdom of Balhae between the 7th century and 10th century.

So the world must now ponder that old Latin maximqui tacet consenterevidetur silence means consent and ask itself if it is wise to quietly consent to Putin s construction of a lawless energy superpower.

Most of Latin America, except for Brazil and Chile, are elective monarchies, a modernized version of the old caudillo tradition.

It is a policy that is governed by the head rather than the heart, but in the process India is losing a little bit of its soul.

Two thousand European Union officials run the country, and 16,000 NATO troops guard its security.

That has been the missing ingredient, not only in Iraq, but also in other countries ruled by despots.

Nor does Asia cohere politically parts of it are democratic, other parts are ruled by despots.

For the first year of his life, George was the only heir to the German territories of his father and three childless uncles.

Alessandria was the first capital of an Italian province to be governed by a Socialist the clockmaker Paolo Sacco was elected mayor on July 25, 1899.

Government Initially, Rome was ruled by kings, who were elected from each of Rome's major tribes in turn.

The US seems to prefer an obedient one party state to a difficult, faltering, but more democratic partner in Asia.

However, this does not necessarily mean that Turkey will become an Islamic, must less an Islamist, country.

Keynes emphasized the flimsiness of the expectations on which economic activity in decentralized markets is based.

At last, Japan would become a fully functioning democracy, and not a de facto one party state run by bureaucrats.

In the second approach each territory was governed as though the king who them all were king only of each one of them .

Among current United Nations members, countries with large natural resource endowments are also more likely to have a non democratic regime.

More strikingly, both Bolivia and Ecuador are governed by presidents who suffered directly from the collateral insensitivities of the war on drugs.

From the 10th to the 16th century, Holland proper was a unified political region within the Holy Roman Empire as a county ruled by the Counts of Holland.