Word: metes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solution could come by way of a convention to which U.N. members would be expected to adhere. Proof of abuses might be hard to find and punishments still harder to determine and mete out, but at least spy agencies would have some incentive to decrease the scale of their cloak-and-dagger operations...
...told of looting and violent treatment at the hands of Russian troops. Human Rights Watch researchers checking out the allegations were themselves held at gunpoint by Russian soldiers, who confiscated their film and tapes. Russia's human rights commissioner, who is investigating the charges, has warned soldiers not to, "mete out mob law or even law and order...
...about the execution of Jacobs. Kidnapping is a capital offense in many jurisdictions, and, as your story notes, under Texas law a co-conspirator to murder can be put to death. Jacobs was at least a party to this murder, so your sympathy is misplaced. Now the state should mete out similar justice to the 398 criminals still on death row, as a good example to timid authorities elsewhere in the country...
...former, but most would try to get into that holy section 14. Just as in the academic realm, students will align themselves according to their interest level, time commitments, and pain threshold for the specific sort of material that any given class (or social service program) promises to mete out. Some will undoubtedly take advantage of the programs...
...authenticity: the hall had been ritually purified with a "devil's club" branch, and some of the judges wore red and black ceremonial blankets and gestured with eagle and raven feathers. But there were abundant reasons for skepticism, both of the tribunal and the sentence it was likely to mete out. Not least of which was its presiding magistrate: one of the more creative cross-cultural jurists in recent legal history, Rudy James...