Word: legalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...unsavory adjectives hurled at him on a daily basis, but for better or worse, he got the nickname Teflon Tony on account of his acute antenna for self-preservation. The idea that the former Prime Minister, or his lawyers, could be so blindsided by the potential threat of international legal prosecution, is just preposterous. Well, at least...
...Jewish Buddhists than Baptists in America. Then there is the fear that to befriend Evangelicals is to support their project of "Christianizing" the U.S. The idea that Evangelicals want to turn America into a Christian government is both alarmist and mistaken. For one thing, there is no Evangelical legal system like Islamic sharia. Evangelicals have an agenda, but it is largely the restoration of moral and ethical standards that have typified the U.S. since its inception but have been neglected in the last half century. You may disagree with this agenda, but it is not theocratic...
...Diana Buttu, a political consultant and former legal adviser to the PLO, adds: ?They're not interested in solving the conflict in any meaningful way - just uttering nice slogans, that...
...anybody else." It will also be worth watching to see how successful competitors will be in knocking off the iPhone's all-screen form factor, which will be tricky without Apple's touch-screen technology. Apple has filed for around 200 patents associated with the iPhone, building an imposing legal wall...
...trial lawyer, litigating across the country. Before entering law school, she worked as a journalist in South Africa, and has since appeared as an MSNBC news analyst. She has maintained a strong interest in public policy, particularly as it relates to terrorism. She also worked as a legal adviser for former Attorney General Janet Reno. “It sounds pathetic, and I don’t mean to get on the Barack Obama train, but I still remember what he said when he became the first black American to be president of the Harvard Law Review...