How to Use international law in a Sentence

international law

noun

• Most of the time, due to international law, refugees will be returned to their country of origin.
  — Amy Delaura, Washington Examiner, 2 Jan. 2023
• There is no international law that requires the United States to take in refugees.
  — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2021
• If not that, then at least Austria would be held in check by international law.
  — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
• But this is what international law says about those who are used as human shields.
  — ABC News, 29 Oct. 2023
• Azmy urged the judge to be the first in the nation to recognize the international law in her decision-making.
  — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021
• The case hinges on the definition of genocide and whether the judges find that Israel’s actions in and plans for the Gaza Strip meet that bar under international law.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
• He was not charged with a war crime under international law.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2022
• By the end of the year, Pyongyang was barred by international law from selling almost anything abroad.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 18 June 2020
• The think tank claims this is the clear and impersonal command of international law.
  — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2020
• Such a move, critics argue, would be a breach of international law.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 6 May 2022
• The United States and its allies have portrayed the war as a battle to uphold international law.
  — New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
• By international law, large ships are required to install and use AIS.
  — WIRED, 11 Nov. 2022
• Advocates have stood firm on the right of migrants to apply for asylum, per U.S. and international law.
  — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
• That became a question of law, of international law, of the law of the Polish constitution and of European law.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2023
• Britain last week diverged from the U.S. by suspending some arms exports to Israel because of the risk they could be used to break international law.
  — Aamer Madhani and Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
• But scholars said that is not how international law works.
  — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• Joe Biden come out and say this is a clear violation of international law, that's simply not true.
  — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2022
• While chlorine is far less deadly, using it as a weapon is banned by international law.
  — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• Kennedy, 67, is a senior counsel at the international law firm Greenberg Traurig and a longtime friend of Biden.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021
• The policy flies in the face of international law, U.S. law and basic morality.
  — Virginia Aabram, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2023
• This includes our thinking about international law and the post-1945 set of institutions and laws and norms.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
• There is no precedent for Britain breaching international law in this way.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2020
• The conflict between Russia and Ukraine for years has tested the boundaries of international law.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
• His British-Lebanese wife, Amal Clooney, alone is worth $50 million, and specializes in international law and human rights.
  — cleveland, 23 Apr. 2022
• But like much international law, on earth and in space, the ruling’s effect remains nebulous, and the Saudis plan to appeal.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 18 June 2020
• Some had intended to apply for asylum in the United States—a right enshrined in U.S. and international law.
  — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 23 May 2025
• The settlements are considered by most of the world to be a violation of international law.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023
• As required by international law for all doppelgängers who find one another, these two switch places for a few days to see how the other half lives.
  — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
• Attacks directed against civilians constitute a grave breach of international law, and a war crime.
  — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
• After nearly two months, though, Akasha had gotten no hint that international law enforcement was tracking him.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025