Meanwhile the EU's rule-of-law mission, EULEX, is crucial while Kosovo's own judiciary is in its infancy.
Prison guard (later Inspector) Javert is the voice of the rule-of-law principle run amuck.
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Italy of Values, a rule-of-law party, drew 6% in the poll, as did the Left Ecology Liberty party.
Once Chinese money and people enter the U.S., they are subject to rule-of-law.
Only in the first group, the professors say, does rule-of-law reform get far.
Members of honor cultures meet outsiders with a suspicion so finely tuned that violent retaliation follows slights that rule-of-law cultures can safely ignore.
"People in Afghanistan need legitimate institutions to resolve their problems, " says Alex Their, a senior rule-of-law adviser at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
But despite whatever disdain one might have for Rupert Murdoch, anyone who values the rule-of-law should hope that no such indictment gets handed down.
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The Shiites and Sunnis have thus far been unable to put their ancient hatreds aside in order to work together to create a rule-of-law constitutional democracy.
Georgia's World Bank rule-of-law score rose from nine out of 100 in 2002 (in the bottom 10%) to 33 at the end of 2006 low, but better.
Obtaining justice might be time consuming, expensive, and uncertain, but confidence in the rule-of-law is what keeps the vast majority of contracts from being broken in the first place.
The EU also plays a key supervisory role in Kosovo through its Eulex rule-of-law mission while soldiers from EU states are deployed as part of the K-For peacekeeping mission.
In a report the Commission said Serbia had "actively and constructively" engaged in dialogue with Kosovo and had improved its co-operation with Eulex, the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo.
The EU plays a key supervisory role in Kosovo through its Eulex rule-of-law mission while soldiers from EU states are deployed as part of the K-For peacekeeping mission.
Russia implemented some judicial reforms in the 1990s and raised spending on the courts in 2000 to no avail: its rule-of-law scores have fallen in five of the past seven years.
Another potential rub in welcoming world finance is the rule-of-law problem: Capital markets function on trust, and welshing on derivatives contracts, for example, is not conducive to bringing big money to the mainland.
It gathers data on more than 60 indicators (the extent of crime, the quality of police, judicial independence and so on) to create rule-of-law and governance measures for virtually every country in the world.
Now consider the potential size of a first-world economy in much of China--with sufficient openness and rule of law--plus the likely international links as its membership in the World Trade Organization kicks in.
It is inherent in the fact that regimes like that of Kim Jong-Il have nothing but contempt for the rule of law -- and for those who put stock in such concepts.
An open, liberal society--whose prerequisite is the rule of law--is ultimately the direction that Li's philanthropy at Shantou and elsewhere may lead.
Without the rule of law, state-building is difficult and the rule of law is all but impossible to apply when a territory becomes a producer of narcotics.
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Senator CHARLES SCHUMER (Democrat, New York): Their bull in a China shop approach - ignore the Constitution, ignore the rule of law - has made us worse off than we would have been had they gone to Congress originally.
Yet the U.S.--or any other nation based on the rule of law--cannot condone illegality just because it brings about tangible economic benefits.
Although its war in Iraq serves their goal of preventing a post-Saddam Iraq from developing into a coherent, multi-ethnic, stable state governed by the rule of law, al-Qaida is not an Iranian (or Syrian) organization.
During his fourteen years in power he changed Venezuela from a poor country with democratic institutions, a rule of law and freedom of the press to an even poorer country with a quasi-dictatorship, no rule of law and no freedom of the press.
The global economic crisis underscores other Israeli advantages, including a vibrant democracy, the rule of law -- particularly individual equality before the law -- and a still potent can-do tradition that stems from the way the country was founded and its survival against seemingly impossible odds.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon today announced the appointment of Takahisa Kawakami of Japan as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Security Sector Support and Rule of Law, United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT).
When the Soviet system collapsed it helped demonstrate that our nation's positive message - individual liberty, the rule of law, tolerance and peace - has global appeal.
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Until genuine free-market economic reforms -- including low taxes, sound money, the rule of law and bureaucratic noninterference in the creation and running of businesses -- become the policies and practices of the IMF, we should not throw away more taxpayer dollars.
Increasingly, Wilders' fellow countrymen and lovers of individual liberty under rule of man-made law across Europe are responding to his call to confront those who would follow the way of Islamic jihad.
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