But nobody ever sang by moonlight on the upper deck, and the congregational singing at church and prayers was not of a
superior order of architecture.
The Innocents Abroad
Two or three servants of a
superior order stood behind their master upon the dais; the rest occupied the lower part of the hall.
Ivanhoe
"Oh, second father," he exclaimed, "thou who hast given me liberty, knowledge, riches; thou who, like beings of a
superior order to ourselves, couldst understand the science of good and evil; if in the depths of the tomb there still remain something within us which can respond to the voice of those who are left on earth; if after death the soul ever revisit the places where we have lived and suffered, -- then, noble heart, sublime soul, then I conjure thee by the paternal love thou didst bear me, by the filial obedience I vowed to thee, grant me some sign, some revelation!
Count of Monte Cristo
He had looked forward, you are aware, to a brilliant career among "the blacks"; but, either because they had already seen too many white men, or for some other reason, they did not at once recognize him as a
superior order of human being; besides, there were no princesses among them.
Brother Jacob
In light of the above, the question arises as to whether, if they were sued civilly or prosecuted criminally, the former MEC for health, the mental health director, the head of the department of health and the project manager could use the defence of '
superior orders' to escape liability, and whether the former MEC for health could escape liability by blaming the mental health director, the head of the department of health and the project manager for the deaths.
Life Esidimeni deaths: Can the former MEC for health and public health officials escape liability for the deaths of the mental-health patients on the basis of obedience to 'superior orders' or because the officials under them were negligent?
If Tele-Liban is barred from carrying out its duties towards a Statesman who has shed his blood for this State, free podiums do exist and they need no
superior orders from anyone to carry out their national duty," Karameh asserted.
Karameh criticizes Lebanese Television's failure to broadcast late Rashid Karameh's commemoration
The defence of "
superior orders" has been used since the Holy Roman Empire.
Every nation has an absolute right to rebel
As a chairman of the state's Security Council was reported to have told the students that he can imprison anyone who does not abide by the
superior orders. When he was confronted by the students about whether he feels guilty about the role plays, his answer was that he is only a soldier to President Al-Bashir and is executing the orders.
Darfur genocide goes Exodus. What a determination and what a lesson!
They are obeying
superior orders. The orders come directly from the PNP chief, and he also receives orders from the President.
British embassy tells nationals: Don't be involved in drugs
That's why international law recognises individual criminal responsibility and rejected the defence of
superior orders. And that's why it's important to bring remaining Nazis to account.
Just because someone has reached the age of 90, it doesn't turn them from a mass-murderer into a righteous gentile
The common-law position regarding unlawful homicide and the doctrine of '
superior orders'
Interference with the clinical independence of doctors in hospitals faced with a shortage of resources: what should doctors do?
In a distinct but increasingly overlapping area of law, domestic and international legal systems provide defenses for subordinates acting in obedience to
superior orders. At the international level, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court allows defendants charged with war crimes to invoke the defense of
superior orders if the command obeyed was not "manifestly unlawful," a standard that has garnered substantial criticism.
Manifest illegality and the ICC superior orders defense: schuldtheorie mistake of law doctrine as an article 33(1)(c) panacea
Cook did not want to criticize the court members directly, and he acknowledged that Patton's speech to the 45th's officers provided both a moral and a legal basis for the panel's conclusion that Compton had acted pursuant to
superior orders. Lieutenant Colonel Cook also conceded that the 1928 Manual for Courts-Martial provided that the "general rule is that the acts of a subordinate officer or soldier, done in good faith ...
War crimes in Sicily: Sergeant West, Captain Compton, and the murder of prisoners of war in 1943
The excuses of insanity, (90) intoxication, (91) duress, (92) and
superior orders (narrowly conceived) (93) are all specifically set out in Part 3.
The mens rea of the crime of aggression