According to most contemporary theories of justice, justice is overwhelmingly important: John Rawls claims that " Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

According to the U. S. Department of Justice, all " special administrative measures " in place against Lindh expired on March 20, 2009, as part of a gradual easing of restrictions on him.

* According to the US Department of Justice, prison time as a percentage of the time sentenced to jail was 73 % in 1993 and increased to 86 % in 1997.

According to the Justice Department, " There has been no policy change nor blanket instruction for FBI agents to Mirandize detainees overseas.

According to the records compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission, in 2009, the United States Department of Justice typically convicted a little over 81, 000 people ; of this, approximately 800 are convicted of money laundering as the primary or most serious charge.

According to the Justice Department 1 in 3 women have suffered rape or attempted rape, more than twice the national rate.

According to its constitution, the Universal House of Justice itself states that " The provenance, the authority, the duties, the sphere of action of the Universal House of Justice all derive from the revealed Word of Bahá ' u ' lláh which, together with the interpretations and expositions of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and of Shoghi Effendi ... constitute the binding terms of reference of the Universal House of Justice and are its bedrock foundation.

" According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics ( BJS ), the NCVS reveals that, from 1994 to 2005, violent crime rates have declined, reaching the lowest levels ever recorded.

According to Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx and Interior Minister Patrick Dewael, the suspects ( 11 of whom were members of the military ) were preparing terrorist attacks in order to " destabilize " Belgium.

According to International Advocates for Justice, Falun Gong has filed the largest number of human rights lawsuits in the 21st century and the charges are among the most severe international crimes defined by international criminal laws.

According to Moore, the concept behind the series was initially a " Justice League of Victorian England " but quickly grew into an opportunity to merge several works of fiction into one world.

According to the U. S. Geological Survey, Justice is located at ( 36. 2909 ,-95. 5636 ).

According to Morgan, " In January 1970, Jacques Delarue, an expert on the Occupation and a commissioner of the Police Judiciaire, a sort of French Federal Bureau of Investigation, was asked by the Minister of Justice to investigate the pardon request and talk to the people who had written testimonial letters.

According to Professor Stephen Tierney, perhaps the earliest notable example of academic interest in the deliberative aspects of democracy occurred in John Rawls 1971 work A Theory of Justice.

According to the Spanish Ministry of Justice, nobility and grandee titles are created by the " sovereign grace of the king ", and may be passed on to the recipient's heirs, who may not sell the title.

According to Title VI of the constitution, Justice in Spain " emanates from the people and is administered on behalf of the King by judges and magistrates members of the Judicial Power ..." It remains a royal prerogative for the king to appoint the twenty members to the General Council of the Judicial Power of Spain ( Spain's Supreme Court ), and then appoint the President of the Supreme Court nominated by the General Council, according to Article 122, Subsection 3, of the constitution.

According to the series ' companion book, The Tick: Mighty Blue Justice !, at least one of the judges was amazed by this ( perhaps by The Tick's survival ), awarding The Tick a score of 10 out of 10.

According to the California Department of Justice, qualified patients and caregivers may possess 8 ounces of dried marijuana, as long as they possess a state-issued identification card.

According to the Jerusalem Post on December 23, 2011 the US Justice Department announced that it had reached a settlement with Kaman Corp. which allegedly substituted a fuse in four lots of fuses made for the bombs.

According to the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics injuries occur in about two percent and a death occurs in less than one percent of all U. S. bank robberies.

According to Kevin O ' Higgins, the Minister for Justice, " we were the most conservative group of revolutionaries ever to have carried out a successful revolution ".

" According to Microsoft's Justice and Public Safety Division ( Microsoft ) Marketing Manager Ken Reeves, over 2, 000 ( international ) law enforcement organizations had connected to the internet by 1996.

According to the Ministry of Justice, there are 92 different types of letters patent.

According to the Complaint, the Parks Department's senior managers sought out and promoted whites to management positions without announcing job openings for those positions or conducting any formal interview process, all in plain disregard of the Parks Department's own stated equal employment opportunity policies.

* According to a report in the October 15, 2006, Philadelphia Inquirer, the FBI and Justice Department's investigations were triggered by a 2004 article in the Los Angeles Times reporting on Weldon and his daughter Karen's links to the Russians and Serbians.

According to the State Department's 2004 International Religious Freedom Report, referenced below, there were some reports that the Government did not allow married, interfaith couples to register the birth of their children.

According to epidemiologist David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety, and Health in the Clinton Administration, the tobacco industry invented the " sound science " movement in the 1980s as part of their campaign against the regulation of second-hand smoke.

According to Environment Canada, Manitoba ranked first for clearest skies year round, and ranked second for clearest skies in the summer and for sunniest province in the winter and spring.

According to the WWF and Digital Map of European Ecological Regions by the European Environment Agency, Macedonia's territory can be subdivided into four ecoregions: the Pindus Mountains mixed forests, Balkan mixed forests, Rhodopes mixed forests and Aegean sclerophyllous and mixed forests.

According to the Global Resource Information Database of the United Nations Environment Programme, it shrank as much as 95 % from about 1963 to 1998, but " the 2007 ( satellite ) image shows significant improvement over previous years.

According to ISA315 Understanding the Entity and its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement, " the auditor should perform risk assessment procedures to obtain an understanding of the entity and its environment, including its internal control.

According to the Environment Agency ( 2000 ), Corus ( Scunthorpe, Llanwern, Port Talbot, Teeside ) was the biggest industrial polluter ( Dioxin ) in the United Kingdom.

According to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and Environment Canada the oil sands make up about 5 % of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions, or 0. 1 % of global greenhouse gas emissions.

According to the " Report on Investment Environment in China 2003 " by the World Bank, Jiangmen ranked the fourth after Shanghai, Hangzhou and Dalian of 23 cities under evaluation in China.

According to Sierra Club and Environment Texas, analysis of Shell ’ s reports to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, air pollutants released at Deer Park since 2003 exceeded the EPA's emissions limits.

According to Environment Canada, Portage la Prairie has the most sunny days during the warm months in Canada.

According to the Environment Canada Climate Severity Index, Isachsen and the surrounding area has the worst weather in Canada with a CSI severity value of 99 out of a possible 100.

According to a 2003 report by the United Nations Environment Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization, the population of Wakhan suffers from lack of education, poverty, ill health, food insecurity and opium addiction.

According to a report released by International Institute for Environment and Development, a UK-based policy research non-governmental body, Asansol is among the 11 Indian cities in the list of 100 fastest growing cities in the world with a rank of 42.

According to Antonio Brack, Peru ’ s Environment Minister, " Pisco Sour has been the ' star ' of the APEC Summit, the drink was served in several meetings at the Government Palace and the APEC Summit venue ".

According to the Department of the Environment ( DoE ), 20, 000 tonnes of tannery waste, including some highly toxic materials, are released into the river every day.

According to the NBC website, Vinick serves as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and serves on the Committees on Foreign Relations and Environment and Public Works.

According to the UK's Environment Agency, 76 % of British carrier bags are reused.

According to a 2006 report by the Livestock, Environment And Development Initiative, the livestock industry is one of the largest contributors to environmental degradation worldwide, and modern practices of raising animals for food contributes on a " massive scale " to air and water pollution, land degradation, climate change, and loss of biodiversity.

According to Environment Canada and other groups, the bog ecosystem is under threat from the proposed South Fraser Perimeter Road.

According to " The Business Case for Creating a Healing Environment " ( Malkin, 2003 ) written by healthcare design expert Jain Malkin and published by The Center for Health Design, the physical setting has the potential to be therapeutic if it achieves the following:

According to the Law 4 / 1994 for the Protection of the Environment, the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency ( EEAA ) was restructured with the new mandate to substitute the institution initially established in 1982.

According to the mentioned European Federation for Transport and Environment study, Fiat is the best performer in Europe.