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While adat (customary law) obliges even distant relatives to care for a family's women and children in the absence of the breadwinner, in view of the catastrophic state of the economy and the physical danger to which the members of their families were subjected during wartime operations and the subsequent zachistkas (mopping-up operations carried out by Russian forces and pro-Moscow Chechen police units), this situation could not go on forever. Coming onstage were representatives of the wartime generation - men whom the war had denied any education other than military training, who had never experienced life during peacetime, who had grown up surrounded by the suffering and violence of war and whose way of thinking is based on the cynical principles of war.
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... Police, where Orwell acknowledges with customary honesty that the institution was changing him and ...
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International lawyers also tell us that British customary law permits prosecution for war crimes, although an enabling resolution is necessary to pass the Commons first. At no time do I recall him condemning the brutal Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, the 10,000 Palestinian prisoners held without charge, the kidnapping of Hamas MPs, the unashamed use of torture, and the killing of innocent civilians. Far from the election being "a campaign that showed Labour at its best", as Gould states, an election-eve poll conducted by YouGov showed that voters overwhelmingly rejected Labour's scaremongering and believed that the SNP's positive campaign about building a successful future for Scotland was the better of the two by a margin of 33 per cent to 11 per cent.
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... crime of aggression, if established in customary international law, is a crime recognised by or for...
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... to its subscribers, reviewing the customary spread of books in the languages of Europe, and so...
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... Bay on 10 December 1982 , and of the customary international law of the sea, and the consequent n...
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THE extraordinarily tall and dignified American with a face that looked like it was hewn from granite savoured each syllable as it rolled effortlessly from his tongue. 'Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie; O, what a panic's in thy breastie...' intoned President Abraham Lincoln in an accent so unlike his customary rich and sonorous mid-Western drawl.
Lincoln's rendition of Broad Scots dialect was so precise that the words might have been spoken by the Ayrshire poet who had written them 80 years earlier, yet his strange words were incomprehensible to his audience -- the senators he had summoned to the White House and tasked with rebuilding a nation bitterly divided by the Civil War.
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ALTHOUGH this country remains in serious economic trouble, two of our greatest institutions (the monarchy and the Armed Forces) proved yesterday that Britain can still put on a brilliant show when required and captivate a global TV audience. And for a few days at least, London has seemed like the centre of the world again.
At such times, it is customary for the British to feel a self- congratulatory warm glow about the enduring security of our great institutions and how fortunate we are to have such a strong constitutional structure in this country.
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... the right (indeed extreme right), the customary proponents of classicism. (Read actually worked as...
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CHRISTMAS may be, somewhere beneath the pile of presents, about the birth of Jesus, but the seasonal film reel whirrs into life with the crucifixion as Richard Burton stars as Marcellus Gallio, a Roman centurion present at Jesus' death in Biblical epic The Robe (More4, 10am, tomorrow).
Marcellus becomes the new owner of the garment in a bet only to find himself tormented by it.
... in which seven brothers sidestep the customary ritual of courtship, kidnapping instead available ...