"We should govern the country on the basis of the law and fully respect the authority of the constitution and laws, " he said, implying that this was not current practice.
And they did it on the basis of their law and their practice so far as the release of people in serious medical conditions on compassionate grounds.
Yishai's spokesman told CNN the travel ban against Grass was issued on the basis of an Israeli law that enables the government to deny former Nazis from entering the country.
Even though the cult's members killed 12 people and injured several thousand in a 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, the government decided last year on the basis of a narrow interpretation of the law that it could not ban the group--to the incredulity of many Japanese.
Dar al-Fatwa, Lebanon's top Sunni authority, and the Higher Shi'a Islamic Council both said that they opposed the draft on the basis that Sharia law protected the status of women, and should remain the basis for governing legal issues related to Muslim families.
The claim was made on the basis of a 2006 Ecuadorian law (Law 42) by which the government has a right to 99% of the oil revenues above a certain "reference price", mostly arbitrary.
Ukrainians, however, who experience the damages of centralized power and the absence of the rule of law on a regular basis, are not fooled.
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The criminal law should once again be more like the common law, with judges and juries not merely finding fact but making law on the basis of universal principles of fairness, circumstance, and seriousness, and crafting penalties to the exigencies of the crime.
Small business owners should consider having the training at least on an annual basis, since the area of employment law is very dynamic and new laws are constantly coming into effect.
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Although there has been an expansion of social and economic freedoms in many areas, under the Communist Party's system of cadre evaluations, local officials are graded on the basis of a series of internal targets that have little to do with the rule of law.
Law enforcement-trained personnel engaged as Field Researchers then visited the mosques and evaluated them on the basis of pre-determined indices of Shariah law observance.
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Instead of written contracts enforceable in a recognized court of law, Sino-Forest operates on the basis of personal relationships, cultivated by its senior management.
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Once he asserts that the Constitution is not necessarily the supreme law of the land, on what basis would the nominee say other legal codes like Shariah can be excluded from use?
Tax cuts cannot be railroaded into law on the basis of the (slender) Republican majority in the House of Representatives alone.
Instead of deciding whether any of the above are reasonable, the court concluded that Prop. 8 could have no effect on any of them so it had no rational basis for being the law of the land.
He insists on these points over and over again, as if they were not slightly banal, and unfortunately, as he does so, it becomes clear that he is laying down the law on the basis simply of his own tastes and prejudices.
Both the House and Senate bills would make it against the law for insurance companies to deny you coverage on the basis of a pre-existing condition or illness.
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In deciding in favor of military intervention on the basis of a transnational legal doctrine never accepted as law by the US Congress called "responsibility to protect, " President Barack Obama was reportedly swayed by the arguments of his senior national security adviser Samantha Power.
The study was published in book form in 2004, and also formed the basis of a 2010 book on liability in international humanitarian law.
Al-Arian's brother-in-law had been jailed on the basis of such secret evidence linking him to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Al-Arian lobbied heavily on Capitol Hill to end the practice.
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However, before today, the United States did not have an explicit bar to admission on the basis of participation in other serious human rights or humanitarian law violations or atrocities.
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But it would lead to a libel law agreed by lawmakers on the basis of the big issues, rather than the existing raft of precedents, all set by judges dealing with narrow points and particular cases.
As with Faneuil, the government will go into court with case law supporting the notion that a defendant can be convicted solely on the basis of testimony even by a convicted felon--if the jury deems it credible.
We believe that Mr. Alioto did in fact make a good faith effort on the basis of his knowledge of the facts and understanding of the law.
In the wake of the Supreme Court's upholding Obama's health care reform law last week on the basis that Congress has the power to collect taxes, Romney said he disagreed with the majority opinion of the court, but he said the decision affirmed that Obama had broken a promise not to impose more taxes on the middle class.
That proposal was signed into law on a bipartisan basis as part of the February extension of the payroll tax cut, and is being implemented today through guidance released by the Labor Department.
In reaching my conclusion, I have taken account of the fact that on a number of previous occasions, including in relation to Operation Desert Fox in December 1998 and Kosovo in 1999, UK forces have participated in military action on the basis of advice from my predecessors that the legality of the action under international law was no more than reasonably arguable.
In New York, for example, the law says students can't be discriminated against on the basis of their gender identity.
After all, I quit the practice of law in part because getting paid on an hourly or retainer basis could never be as interesting (or profitable) as creatively managing an investment banking, brokerage and investigative services firm.
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He revived the case with the help of Phineas Leahey, an attorney with the corporate law firm of Jones Day who represented him on a pro bono basis.
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