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How to use the word jurisdiction in a Sentence?

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The bottom line is that a development agreement has to be approved by the governing body of a jurisdiction, and that didn’t happen from the cities that have jurisdiction.

Daniel Langley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We hope that our proceedings will inspire the UN General Assembly to authorize the Secretary General to enter into an agreement with Ukraine to establish a tribunal with legal jurisdiction over aggression in Ukraine.

Stephen Rapp

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The health care infrastructure in Ukraine has been deliberately targeted by Russian forces, which is absolutely prohibited in international humanitarian law and constitutes a war crime falling within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

Iryna Marchuk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The report is the very first comprehensive effort to map and analyze attacks on Ukrainian health care infrastructure and personnel by Russian forces, the health care infrastructure in Ukraine has been deliberately targeted by Russian forces, which is absolutely prohibited in international humanitarian law and constitutes a war crime falling within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

Iryna Marchuk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our vote is as important as anyone else, if someone takes that away or violates it in a way that is criminal, because I sit here in this jurisdiction it’s my responsibility.

Fani Willis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am not a criminal here – not here or in Brazil or any jurisdiction in the world, absolutely not. That didn’t happen.

George Santos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While we continue reviewing the final rule, since the rulemaking process was announced last year, NAWG has stressed that farmers need clarity regarding jurisdiction, recognize important agricultural water features, and more long-term certainty from the courts and administrations.

Chandler Goule

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I am not a criminal here – not here or in Brazil or any jurisdiction in the world.

George Santos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am not a criminal here – not here or in Brazil or any jurisdiction in the world. Absolutely not. That didn’t happen.

George Santos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Here, Plaintiffs contend that the scope of head-of-state immunity does not extend to situations in which foreign nations manipulate the jurisdiction of American court.

Hatice Cengiz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If you have folks who are inclined to think Florida is a good place [to settle], our message to them is we are not a sanctuary state, and it's better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction.

Florida Gov. DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If you have folks who are inclined to think Florida is a good place [to settle], our message to them is we are not a sanctuary state, and it's better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction, and yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If a pilot successfully reaches the intended populations, the jurisdiction will be encouraged to adapt this model for broader implementation with future federally allocated vaccine distributions, this process will allow CDC and its public health partners to determine new, successful methods of delivering care to the communities most at need, which will help alleviate the effects of the current outbreak and potentially develop repeatable methods that can be used to avoid these inequities in the future as well.

The CDC

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They are getting into areas that are parental rights areas, and you should be able to have conversations with your children based on your own personal values, about what you think about gender identity or any kind of identity affirmation as it pertains to your children, and they're basically what we're seeing is public school is crossing into a jurisdiction where they don't belong in.

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's never been a role prior to this, where someone is solely focused on looking at the health and economic impacts of heat, and looking transversely not only across departments within that jurisdiction, so in my case within the county, but across agencies and across sectors, i'm charged with breaking down those silos.

Jane Gilbert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Local health departments know who they see as peers. So, a rural county may look to Chicago for guidance, but not for similarities. But if they can compare themselves to another rural county, they might be able to find more and more programs like themselves, those are the places where having everything compiled in a CDC location allows us to explore the possibility for expanding partnership outside of just one state with the similarities around county size and jurisdiction size and population type and infrastructure set-up.

Chelsea Gridley-Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Taliban targeted and killed Danish because he was a journalist and an Indian. That is an international crime. In the absence of rule of law in Afghanistan, the ICC has jurisdiction to investigate and try the perpetrators of Danish’s murder.

Avi Singh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Tribal courts will now be able to exercise jurisdiction over non-Native perpetrators of sexual assault and sex trafficking, and we're providing more support for legal services and for law enforcement to get the training they need to help handle the trauma survivors are experiencing.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

China is firmly opposed to any form of long-arm jurisdiction and unilateral sanctions.

Zhao Lijian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What concerns me, whether you’re a reformed DA or a conservative DA, if you have an increase of crime within your jurisdiction, you should be always be willing to take a second look at what you’re doing.

Joe Sullivan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You can follow a timeline of the rise in homicide and the rise in violent crime and compare that to when the present DA took office, and you can see the relationship very easily. Without a doubt, the communities that are most impacted are communities of color – somewhere between 85 and 95% of all homicide victims in the city of Philadelphia are citizens of color, what concerns me, whether you’re a reformed DA or a conservative DA, if you have an increase of crime within your jurisdiction, you should be always be willing to take a second look at what you’re doing.

Joe Sullivan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With respect to the situation in Ukraine, the ICC prosecutor may investigate allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, the ICC is empowered to exercise jurisdiction only over natural persons. In other words, The ICC may institute proceedings only against individual humans. The ICC has no jurisdiction over the entities with which those humans may be affiliated, such as a government or a military.

Dustin Lewis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The ICC may exercise jurisdiction only over individual humans ; The ICC has no jurisdiction over states such as Ukraine and Russia, the ICC operates on the basis that The ICC may prosecute anyone who is responsible for committing a crime falling within the jurisdiction of the court, irrespective of whether the person is a national of a state party to the court. Under that approach, The ICC may institute proceedings against a Russian or a Ukrainian national for a crime falling within the court’s jurisdiction allegedly committed on the territory of Ukraine during the current armed conflict.

Dustin Lewis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There was a policy put in place...where any of these cases that come back to our jurisdiction — we want to know about them.

Los Angeles

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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