Asked on Wednesday if he had the backing of the attorney general - the government's chief law officer - for unfreezing Libyan assets, Mr Hague said the government "based on any legal considerations as well as political considerations are united in this position".

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The U.S. government shares with many Iraqis the hope that their country will enjoy the rule of law and other institutions of democracy under a broad-based government that represents the various parts of Iraqi society.

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We have -- based on the law, the U.S. government has oversight over this at the moment that it became an incident, okay?

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The Muslim Brotherhood is an international movement founded in 1928 that seeks the destruction of all state and geographic divisions, rejects the idea of the nation-state and all forms of secularization, and works toward creating a world pan-Islamic state with a government based on Muslim sharia law.

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Until this mandate, the government recognized, through tax law and other means, faith-based schools, hospitals, orphanages, soup kitchens and hospice services as religious institutions.

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"We're not ready to pop the champagne corks and have a party, " said Doug Honnold, the managing attorney for Earthjustice, a non-profit environmental law firm based in Oakland, California, that has threatened to sue the government.

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The changes are based Law Commission recommendations about homicide law made in 2006, proposed by the then-Labour government in 2008, and finally passed into law in 2009.

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"The way in which inter-personal relationships infiltrate the political processes, causing a lack of observance and enforcement of the law, is a major cause of corruption in the Party and government, " says the Shanghai-based sociologist Cao Jinxing.

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Instead of just throwing more money at the problem of violence, the federal government is now in the trenches with communities and schools and law enforcement and faith-based institutions, with outstanding mayors like Mayor Nutter and Mayor Landrieu -- recognizing that we are stronger when we work together.

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