international law
noun
: a body of rules that control or affect the rights of nations in their relations with each other
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Its Foreign Ministry wrote to the UN Security Council saying the inauguration of the dam violated international law.
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CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
This tactic is not endorsed in Getting to Yes or in any other guide to negotiation or international law.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
There was no international law, there was no nothing like that.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
Its deepest channel runs south of Santa Rosa, which would back up Colombia's claim to the island, says Walter Arévalo, an international law professor at Rosario University in Bogotá.
—John Otis, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
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CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
This tactic is not endorsed in Getting to Yes or in any other guide to negotiation or international law.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
There was no international law, there was no nothing like that.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
Its deepest channel runs south of Santa Rosa, which would back up Colombia's claim to the island, says Walter Arévalo, an international law professor at Rosario University in Bogotá.
—John Otis, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for international law
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“International law.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/international%20law. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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