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How to use the word jurisdiction in a Sentence? Page #3

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By law, no city in the state can close down, can quarantine unless the state government allows it. I will not allow any quarantine of any city or any jurisdiction in this state, so that is not going to happen, there's no discussion of closing down New York City, meaning quarantine geographic constriction.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Social distancing, one of the recommended mitigation strategies, may be difficult to implement with some cultures accustomed to intimate contact a handshake, kissing, hugging, and not all public health resources are created equal. The measures of containment, screening, quarantine, isolation may vary from one jurisdiction to another. Italy is the European nation with the greatest number of air connections with China, so it is no surprise that this country has been hit the hardest.

Robert Quigley

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

If Resolute isn't willing to go into a jurisdiction to build and operate a mine, then the explorers aren't going to get the reward for investing and discovering something, the ecosystem works because the little fish get eaten by the slightly bigger fish.

John Welborn

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The court concludes that prima facie it has jurisdiction under the Genocide Convention.

Yusuf Abdulqawi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Specifically, I have sought confirmation that the 'territory' over which the court may exercise its jurisdiction, and which I may subject to investigation, comprises the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza.

Fatou Bensouda

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The ICC only has jurisdiction over petitions submitted by sovereign states. But there has never been a Palestinian state.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The real test will be a global offering, in another jurisdiction, such as London or Asia with more stringent regulatory requirements.

Gianna Bern

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I want us to be the model jurisdiction in the world for how we are dealing with digital platforms, social media platforms.

Scott Morrison

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

That's an angle we can assert in terms of jurisdiction.

Gerry Connolly

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Taiwan is globally relevant economically, geopolitically and geo-strategically, it is indisputable that the Republic of China would continue to be independent, effectively exerting civil and military jurisdiction over a territory and a population.

Fabrizio Bozzato

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I have been supporting the committee's jurisdiction, performing their oversight duties. As I've said, I don't think we've made the case to the American people that we need to yet.

Mikie Sherrill

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It makes no sense to involve the FCC here, they have rule-making authority, but no jurisdiction — they can't possibly want to be involved. It would be an impossible position.

Berin Szoka

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in ... the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing it’s noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. ...when all government... in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
4 years ago

New Zealand has obligations under international law to refuse to return a person to a jurisdiction in which they will be at substantial risk of torture, or where they will not receive a fair trial.

Helen Winkelmann

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Our office stands ready to assist local law enforcement and any district attorneys office that asks for our help in dismantling this form of evil and removing the threat of those who threaten Texas children, to date, we have not received any such requests, but we are ready to provide assistance to local prosecutors in accordance with state law and original criminal jurisdiction.

Marc Rylander

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I believe that what we do in this Congress over the next year or so will have impact for the next 50 to 100 years, we're going to cautiously go about with subpoenas. ... There would have to be something that has a compelling interest to the citizens of the United States, and would have to be something that comes under our jurisdiction. So there's certain criteria that has to be met. I do not expect to be issuing subpoenas -- even the 64 that we've asked for because there are so many things that are backed up. And we'll never get a chance to do everything.

Elijah Cummings

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It seems to me to be an odd thing to say at this point in the process, she's not in The President jurisdiction. She's in Canadian jurisdiction. Intervening in the process means he would talk to [ Canadian Prime Minister Justin ] Trudeau, who has said more than once the normal judicial process will go ahead. It just creates another point of friction with Canada.

The President

Found on CNN
5 years ago

And that also means leaving the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.

Michael Gove

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We voted very clearly -- 17.4 million people sent a clear message that they wanted to leave the European Union, and that also means leaving the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.

Michael Gove

Found on CNN
5 years ago

With those two exceptions, everyone who was physically present in United States was thought to be under its jurisdiction, there are numerous The Supreme Court cases that reaffirm that understanding, and almost as importantly, there are lots of congressional statutes that assume birthright citizenship.

Jeffrey Rosen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is clearly part of a bigger campaign to undermine international institutions and its notable that John Bolton emphasized that The US is going to be aiming to remove The US from any further jurisdiction, i think United States's part of Bolton's underlying agenda. John Bolton's quite obsessed with restraints on United States policy making.

Richard Gowan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We will commence a review of all international agreements that may still expose The US to purported binding jurisdiction dispute resolution in the International Court of Justice.

John Bolton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It’s sort of a gray area right now because it is a food product, so you would think that it would fall under the FDA, but it also contains a Schedule II drug, so you think it might fall under the jurisdiction of the DEA, they are marketing this for pain relief as a food product but they contain potentially lethal levels of a Schedule II drug.

Madeleine Swortwood

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I'm not going to speculate on what the President might do. But I can tell you Jeff Sessions has always been a friend and is still a friend, when we get Kavanaugh done we're going to have time -- anything that's in my jurisdiction that the President sends up that we have to do. But that's unrelated to any questions that people are floating around about Jeff Sessions right now. Because I wouldn't want to connect what I just told you about my having time with anything doing with Jeff Sessions.

Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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