Australia has threatened to seek international legal action before.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

and it's also a right that is enshrined in international legal conventions.

国际法律公约中也都声明要保护生存权。

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It also said the United States recognizes a government's right to defend itself from attacks by terrorist groups, but that it expects both state and non-state actors to comply with international legal obligations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Slowly,the international community is working toward a legal process to try piracy suspects close to where they operate.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Schools have to report legal violations by international students to the Department of Homeland Security.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

The U.S.report stressed that it did not reach legal conclusions as to whether the abuses cited constituted violations of international law.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

However,Australia insists it has amassed compelling photographic and video evidence to launch legal action against Japan at the international court of justice in The Hague.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

Chandrashekhar Krishnan, executive director of Britain's anti-corruption agency Transparency International, says in the past Britain has been slow to bring legal action in bribery cases.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

"This is not a particularly easy case, because it sets out, or calls to question a number of legal issues that have to be examined, that have to really be given legal treatment for them to arrive at a decision that is legal in the eyes of the region and the eyes of the international law,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.18