"They were vaguely worded ... and became an instrument of coercion and persecution, " he said.
Erected around Turkey's vaguely worded anti-terror laws these cases can be patchy and sometimes absurd.
Criticism of the royal family is prohibited and other vaguely worded clauses appear to threaten independent reporting of the conflict with the Maoists.
Unlike an advance directive, which can be misplaced or vaguely worded, a Polst spells out specific treatment instructions and remains part of a patient's medical record.
They get what is essentially a vaguely worded promise to not do that again, or at least, not that same thing, for at least two years.
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"The big glaring hole is that it is such a vaguely worded document that it doesn't seem to force countries into doing anything, " Ben Ayliffe from Greenpeace told BBC News.
Over the last couple decades, federal prosecutors have increasingly used broad, vaguely worded statutes to target individuals and institutions they want to take down, ranging from Michael Milken to Arthur Andersen.
He said that one of the attacks, on the South African Council of Churches' headquarters at Khotso House in Johannesburg in 1988, was carried out on the (vaguely worded) instructions of Mr Botha.
The report laid much of the blame on the opposition: "Congressional Democrats tried to use vaguely worded and constantly changing laws to impose policies in Central America that went well beyond the law itself, " the report said.
Relying on the Martin Act, a vaguely worded state law that enables the attorney general to file civil or criminal charges in a broad range of securities cases, he targeted various investment banks in 2001, accusing their research divisions of producing overly optimistic reports on investment banking clients.
The implication of the power of the deferred prosecution agreement should be clear: if the government decides that a company may be guilty under some vaguely worded statute or other, it can force a company to investigate itself and then dispense with the inconvenience that we call an actual trial.
As is readily evident by the TAP case and many others (some of which I describe in Three Felonies a Day), there is already a culture within the Department of Justice for pursuing dubious cases based on vaguely worded statutes, and then extracting settlements and plea-bargains out of the frightened defendants when, in reality, no real crime may have been committed.
But to what extent, one must ask, do vaguely-worded laws against securities fraud in the U.S. provide a similar lack of notice?
The inflation target replaces the BoJ's current, vaguely-worded "goal" for price stability over the medium to long-term, which was taken to mean a positive range of 2 per cent or lower in year-on-year change in the consumer price index.
MI6 sources doubt his story, insist that any role they may have played in his transfer was lawful and say they are surprised that the letters discovered in Tripoli which are said to be worded vaguely and have not been widely seen or verified are being treated by some as reliable proof to the contrary.
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