How to Use international law in a Sentence

international law

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  • Health facilities are protected under international law and must remain out of harm's way in times of conflict.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • European officials readily admit that international law does not stand in the way of seizing these frozen assets.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 21 May 2024
  • The newsletter is widely shared and the student's job offer at an international law firm is reportedly rescinded.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 4 May 2024
  • While companies must comply with local, federal, and international laws, that’s the end of their legal obligations.
    — Sam Delgado, Vox, 5 July 2024
  • Freedom of navigation is one of the oldest principles of international law, going back 400 years.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Twin Cities, 6 July 2024
  • Most of the time, due to international law, refugees will be returned to their country of origin.
    — Amy Delaura, Washington Examiner, 2 Jan. 2023
  • But this is what international law says about those who are used as human shields.
    — ABC News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The case hinges on the definition of genocide and whether the judges find that Israel’s actions in and plans for the Gaza Strip meet that bar under international law.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Advocates have stood firm on the right of migrants to apply for asylum, per U.S. and international law.
    — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • That became a question of law, of international law, of the law of the Polish constitution and of European law.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2023
  • But scholars said that is not how international law works.
    — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
  • While chlorine is far less deadly, using it as a weapon is banned by international law.
    — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The policy flies in the face of international law, U.S. law and basic morality.
    — Virginia Aabram, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The settlements are considered by most of the world to be a violation of international law.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023
  • There are significant problems with this plan, not the least of which is it would be seen by most of the world as a blatant violation of international law.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
  • China has long claimed to hold sovereignty over the Taiwan Strait and the island itself, something not recognized by the U.S. or international law.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The government is still waiting for legal advice from its lawyers on whether or not selling arms to Israel is in breach of international law.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Under international law, you're supposed to apply for asylum in the first safe third country.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Most of the world considers all Israeli settlement in the West Bank to be a violation of international law.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Washington’s support for international law, from the United Nations to The Hague, will fade.
    — Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • Businesses are run by and for the benefit of their owners, subject to local and international law.
    — Terrence Keeley, National Review, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The 23 sensors outside Kyiv that powered this study are part of that system, which had been used to detect nuclear tests across the world that violate international law.
    — Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In 1948, genocide was made a crime under international law, and the court was empowered to determine whether states have committed it.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The crime of aggression is one of the core crimes in international law alongside genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity but hasn’t been prosecuted in decades.
    — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • One of the missiles hit a hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine, another in a long list of Russian violations of international law.
    — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The sixtieth country to do so will start a hundred-and-twenty-day countdown, after which the agreement will become international law.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Iran cast the asset freeze as an attempt to destabilize the Tehran government and a violation of international law.
    — Mike Corder, ajc, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The presence of this surveillance balloon in U.S. airspace is a clear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law.
    — ABC News, 18 June 2023
  • These sorts of minor land features, some of which lose a significant amount of area at high tide, are by international law not to be used to extend a country’s territory.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Advertisement There are significant problems with this plan, not the least of which is it would be seen by most of the world as a blatant violation of international law.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024

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