a monopoly over the use of legitimate force

Stopping criminal activity is a legitimate government concern.

The report called for legislation to protect against ethnic profiling.

In theory, the pardon serves a legitimate purpose when awarded for liberal reasons or good conscience.

With the support of feminist movements, they claim the right to self determination and respect for human rights and call for the establishment of a proper status for their profession. A joint letter by French intellectuals and feminists published in August declared that

The procedure, of course, was perfectly legal the chairmanship rotates every year from one global region to another.

Recalling that the elimination of illicit diamonds from legitimate trade is the primary objective of the Kimberley Process,

Prisoners, it seems, are denied legal protection so that coercive interrogations can proceed without interference.

The first and most serious source of tension stems from the need to recognize Kurdish identity as a fully legitimate part of the Turkish Republic.

To block the rule, the Business Roundtable filed a petition with the US Court of Appeals to invalidate it.

As in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, Islamist moderates in the Palestinian territories need to be engaged as a legitimate political force.

The wrongfulness of an act of a State is precluded if the act constitutes a lawful measure of self defence taken in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations.

Ukraine s business barons want not only to develop their empires within the safety of a legitimate free market framework, but also to invest in the EU.

Endorsing the claim to arbitrary power is the cardinal heresy of those who say we should certify property stolen from the state as rightfully owned.

Since they lack the legitimate authority of elected or high level appointed officials, bureaucratic entrepreneurs must remain cognizant of the need to balance initiative with loyalty.

The lessons from any trial of Milosevic should be taught to Serbia's citizens by Serbian judges, within a normative system that most Serbs accept as legitimate.

When it comes to tackling complex political and cultural conflicts, forging international and regional alliances around a legitimate objective is more important than sheer military capacity.

The report also states explicitly that decriminalization of marijuana consumption is a legitimate, reasonable, and feasible option, though it does not recommend such a policy.

Tired of war, the following year I turned politician, winning a seat in parliament as a member of Museveni's Movement group, the only legal party in Uganda.

Pessimists and skeptics have plenty to point to in Iran s long record of obstruction and brinkmanship in addressing legitimate international concerns about its nuclear programs.

Consider one identified by Adam Smith, namely the link between individual autonomy and self support through legally free labor.

Solidarity urgently needed to become legal again, to substitute a lasting institutional reality for its still enduring existence as a national myth.

Many anticipate that China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) will speed these trends along and may even precipitate fundamental and legal political change.

The more the international community respects this will provided that this does not interfere with the legitimate will of other nations the more stable the world will be.

Rather, the Kremlin evidently will view as a legitimate target any aircraft that might pass over territory that it comes to regard as being under its control.

Even the International Monetary Fund, long the embodiment of the Washington Consensus, has acknowledged that capital controls are a legitimate part of the toolkit to manage capital flows in certain circumstances.

We can also accept that al Zawahiri is undoubtedly a dangerous foe, still active in a terrorist movement, and that he is a legitimate military target.

Ever since, a country that had never truly experienced democratic rule has enjoyed all the charms and vicissitudes of competitive elections, legislative battles, and rotation in power.

Saudi Arabia, a self proclaimed bulwark of Islamic conservatism, where popular democracy has never been considered a legitimate form of rule, has been more aggressive in some arenas than in others.

While protecting health is a legitimate government purpose, criminalizing drug use to protect people from harming themselves does not meet the criteria of necessity or proportionality.

The Chinese authorities detention of a Taiwanese NGO worker on vague national security grounds raises fears the authorities are broadening their attack against those carrying out legitimate activism.

For example, the seemingly benign Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, viewed by many of its supporters as a legitimate form of non violent resistance, has continued to gain ground.

Limitations on autonomy and privacy cannot be justified unless they meet the criteria for any restriction of a basic right, namely legitimate purpose, proportionality, necessity, and non discrimination.

They have a duty to act, be it legally or morally, says Dennis van Berkel, legal counsel to the Urgenda Foundation, which, supported by about 900 co plaintiffs, initiated the suit.

Khurram also remains undaunted, and views his arrest as a vindication of his stance for human rights and a rightful solution under the UN mandated self determination of the Kashmiri people.

Indeed, China s pandering to dictators in its quest for resources contradicts its long term interest in being acknowledged as a benign and legitimate power and commanding the international respect that it craves.

In July, in Brasilia it was ISS World's turn, bringing together policy, security officials and intelligence analysts for training in legal interception, high tech electronic investigations and networked data collection.

The current dispute over Iran s peaceful and legal nuclear program is part of this pattern, replete with unfounded accusations, double standards, and moral and legal inconsistency, all hidden behind the alleged threat of proliferation.

Erdoğan s theory of government seems to be that, because he was elected by a majority of Turks who still support him, anyone who opposes him is a terrorist or a pawn of sinister foreign forces. He appears to see no room for legitimate opposition, for the idea that today s majority can be tomorrow s minority and that the rules of the game must allow both to be heard.

It is inconceivable, for example, that an Egyptian democracy, in which the Muslim Brotherhood would be a legitimate political force, would persist in Mubarak s complicity with Israel s siege of Hamas controlled Gaza.

A country s attractiveness or soft power stems partly from its culture and values (where they are attractive to others), but it also grows out of a country s policies when they are seen as legitimate, consultative, and inclusive of the interests of others.

He appears to see no room for legitimate opposition, for the idea that today s majority can be tomorrow s minority and that the rules of the game must allow both to be heard.

This requires commitment and action on all levels of society citizens, government and the private sector built on a legitimate and effective normative foundation and the protection of a judicial system capable of enforcing the law without exception.

That Yeltsin s government used tanks to suppress opposition from a legitimate, though deeply flawed, Duma and has been involved in what, under different circumstances, would have been viewed in the West as a genocidal war in Chechnya, was basically overlooked.

The resolution would not have the force of law, but its approval would mark the first time that a national legislature has recognized the special status of great apes and the need to protect them, not only from extinction, but also from individual abuse.