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Great power competition doesn't change just because the head of state is sympathetic to the other party, as Trump is toward the war criminal Putin.
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David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
In order to have jurisdiction over the actions of Americans in the ICC, there would need to be evidence of Americans troops on the ground acting on direct orders from a head of state to do acts that amount to violations of international law litigated in the ICC.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025
Clemence Landers, the vice-president and a senior policy fellow at the think tank Center for Global Development, worked in Liberia, serving as an adviser to the country’s finance minister after the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman head of state elected in Africa.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
Patriotism is loyalty to country and loyalty to the Constitution — not loyalty to a single head of state.
—Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
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David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
In order to have jurisdiction over the actions of Americans in the ICC, there would need to be evidence of Americans troops on the ground acting on direct orders from a head of state to do acts that amount to violations of international law litigated in the ICC.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025
Clemence Landers, the vice-president and a senior policy fellow at the think tank Center for Global Development, worked in Liberia, serving as an adviser to the country’s finance minister after the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman head of state elected in Africa.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
Patriotism is loyalty to country and loyalty to the Constitution — not loyalty to a single head of state.
—Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for head of state
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“Head of state.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/head%20of%20state. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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