#convent

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them. ↗

— John Yoo

#applies #because #between #conflict #conflicts

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. ↗

— John Yoo

#convention #criminal #criminal law #federal #law

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. ↗

— John Yoo

#combatants #command #conduct #conventions #failing

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers. ↗

— Ian Hart

#convention #dads #desire #drama #fathers

Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#become #constitution #convention #convinced #efforts

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#convention #convinced #democracy #direct #exposure

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #communism #convent #converted #during

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#bound #convention #governments #implement #legally

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#audience #available #conventional #due #electronic

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. ↗

— Andre Breton

#easily #even #exaltation #experienced #feeling