Word: sovereignity
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...expects a show of official sorrow over the passing of Princess Di, whom QE2 never much cared for. Prime Minister Tony Blair instructs her in media manipulation, and director Stephen Frears makes a high, dry comedy of manners out of the mess--while enlisting our sympathy for the beleaguered sovereign...
...place. The declare-war part is a little harder to argue for. But the fact is, if we're ever going to get fully beyond this passage in our history - and figure out how never to make a similar mistake again - officially declaring a state of war with the sovereign nation of Iraq might be one of the most curative things we can do. After all, it's awfully hard to bring a formal end to something that never had a formal beginning...
...States’ failure to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. If a certain policy’s legality and morality are both difficult to refute, it is then declared to go against Western norms. The death penalty fits into this final category. While it is the U.S.’ sovereign right to execute its inmates, and there is disagreement among philosophers as to the morality of capital punishment, it was still uniformly denounced in class as an abominable practice, somehow alien to Western norms. The seminar, then, employs ever-shifting criteria by which to gauge U.S. foreign policy, ensuring that...
...have turned down a CIA offer for a lifetime of ease in the U.S. if he would spill his secrets. He later returned to Germany and was sentenced to six years in prison for treason, but the conviction was overturned on the grounds that East Germany had been a sovereign state for which he had been entitled to spy. He was later convicted on kidnapping-related charges, but received a suspended sentence. That left him free to reinvent himself, which he did with a mix of cynicism and egotism he might have admired in any of his best agents. Always...
...Mexican national congress has passed several motions condemning Ruiz and asking him to step down. But Ruiz, now re-established in his official residence, has refused to budge, asserting that each state in the Mexican federation is sovereign and not answerable the national assembly...