How to Use international law in a Sentence

international law

noun

• Most of the time, due to international law, refugees will be returned to their country of origin.
  — Amy Delaura, Washington Examiner, 2 Jan. 2023
• But this is what international law says about those who are used as human shields.
  — ABC News, 29 Oct. 2023
• The case hinges on the definition of genocide and whether the judges find that Israel’s actions in and plans for the Gaza Strip meet that bar under international law.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
• Advocates have stood firm on the right of migrants to apply for asylum, per U.S. and international law.
  — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
• That became a question of law, of international law, of the law of the Polish constitution and of European law.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2023
• But scholars said that is not how international law works.
  — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• While chlorine is far less deadly, using it as a weapon is banned by international law.
  — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• The policy flies in the face of international law, U.S. law and basic morality.
  — Virginia Aabram, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2023
• The settlements are considered by most of the world to be a violation of international law.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023
• China has long claimed to hold sovereignty over the Taiwan Strait and the island itself, something not recognized by the U.S. or international law.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2023
• The government is still waiting for legal advice from its lawyers on whether or not selling arms to Israel is in breach of international law.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
• Under international law, you're supposed to apply for asylum in the first safe third country.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2023
• Most of the world considers all Israeli settlement in the West Bank to be a violation of international law.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Businesses are run by and for the benefit of their owners, subject to local and international law.
  — Terrence Keeley, National Review, 25 Jan. 2023
• The 23 sensors outside Kyiv that powered this study are part of that system, which had been used to detect nuclear tests across the world that violate international law.
  — Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• In 1948, genocide was made a crime under international law, and the court was empowered to determine whether states have committed it.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
• The crime of aggression is one of the core crimes in international law alongside genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity but hasn’t been prosecuted in decades.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• One of the missiles hit a hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine, another in a long list of Russian violations of international law.
  — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2024
• The sixtieth country to do so will start a hundred-and-twenty-day countdown, after which the agreement will become international law.
  — Jeffrey Marlow, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2023
• Iran cast the asset freeze as an attempt to destabilize the Tehran government and a violation of international law.
  — Mike Corder, ajc, 30 Mar. 2023
• The presence of this surveillance balloon in U.S. airspace is a clear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law.
  — ABC News, 18 June 2023
• These sorts of minor land features, some of which lose a significant amount of area at high tide, are by international law not to be used to extend a country’s territory.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
• The United States is no mere bystander, either to Israeli military action or to the enforcement of international law.
  — David Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2024
• One, these commercial vessels have every right under international law to apply the sea lanes that go around the Arabian Peninsula in the Red Sea and elsewhere.
  — ABC News, 21 Jan. 2024
• One dictate of reparatory justice under international law is that the victim group decides, no matter who the victim group is.
  — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• Seventy percent of the people would be denied asylum under international law, but Biden chooses to ignore the law.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2023
• And the United States will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2023
• Over the years, the occupation and the siege of Gaza have occasioned harsh military actions, some of which could be considered gross violations of international law.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The offended party can retaliate in one way or another, but it’s still bound to international law.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
• Since Saturday, support of the 27-nation bloc for Israel had been steadfast, including that the country now had every right within international law to defend itself in the war with Hamas.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024