The United States, Canada, Israel and the Netherlands regard Hezbollah as a " terrorist " organization, while the United Kingdom and Australia consider only Hezbollah's external security organization to be a terrorist organization.

In this regard, conspiracy theories may sometimes serve to highlight ' blind spots ' in the common or official interpretations of events.

* 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

This is because the Dutch Ministry of Justice applies a gedoogbeleid ( tolerance policy ) with regard to the category " soft drugs ": an official set of guidelines telling public prosecutors under which circumstances offenders should not be prosecuted.

While it is simple to recognize a political medium in an official newspaper, magazine, TV channel that directly declares to belong to a group, deep concerns might regard submission of communications to political interests and impartiality of media that do not declare their party alliances.

The Chinese historical form of dynasty history, or Jizhuanti history of dynasties, was codified in the second dynastic history by Ban Gu ’ s ( 班固 ) History of Han ( 漢書 ), but historians regard Sima ’ s work as their model, which stands as the " official format " of the history of China.

In with regard to delegation of authority by the President, it is provided that " nothing herein shall be deemed to require express authorization in any case in which such an official would be presumed in law to have acted by authority or direction of the President.

Sedevacantists believe the differences between the Roman Catholic Church before and after Vatican II are essential in nature, and enough to regard the contemporary, official Catholic Church as not truly Catholic, sometimes pointing to the Church of England as a model.

But since most of the Persian empire had been conquered and Bessus only ruled over a loose alliance of renegade provinces, historians do not generally regard him as an official Persian king.

The Brussels Congress of the International in 1868, approved Marx ’ s tactics in regard to the League, opposing official affiliation to the League but calling upon the working class to combine efforts with all progressive anti-military forces.

According to the Second Chapter, Article 2, in the Freedom of the Press Act ( part of the Swedish constitution ): " The right of access to official documents may be restricted only if restriction is necessary having regard to

His activity as professor ceased in March 1842, when he was appointed "" ( High Chancellor ), the title given by Frederick the Great in 1746 to the official at the head of the juridical system in Prussia, as in this position he carried out several important law reforms in regard to bills of exchange and divorce.

This was confirmed in the official Brendan Perry forum on 12 May 2011: " I have been talking with Lisa Gerrard this past week with regard to recording a new DCD album this coming winter.

In 1770, King Charles III declared the to be the official " Honour March " for the Sovereigns and the Royal Family, as it was played at public and ceremonial events, and because it was always played at public events attended by the royal family, Spaniards soon came to regard the as their national anthem and called it the, or " Royal March ".

His claim includes 153, 000 civilian victims in Croatia and 174, 000 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and of that, 85, 000 people from Bosnia and Herzegovina and 48, 000 from Croatia died in concentration camps. This was substantially smaller than in all Yugoslav official estimation, especially with regard to previous estimates of hundreds of thousands of Serbian deaths in the Jasenovac concentration camp and other places, which are later disputed by professor Vladeta Vučković, Serbian author of the official 1946 Yugoslav document.

Because of the destruction of government documentation related to Lin's death, the Chinese government has relied on the " evidence " provided by the " confessions " of purged officials close to Lin to corroborate the official narrative, but non-Chinese scholars generally regard this " evidence " as unreliable.

Bathurst's official position caused his name to be mentioned frequently during the agitation for the abolition of slavery, and with regard to this traffic he seems to have been animated by a humane spirit.

In the official letters issued by the council, the faithful were ordered to expel the Hasidim from every Jewish community, to regard them as members of another faith, to hold no social intercourse with them, not to intermarry with them, and not to bury their dead.

With regard to the controversy, Henry Herx, director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ' Office of Film and Broadcast ( successor to the Legion of Decency ) emphasized that the Catholic League is not an official agency of the church.

This gives some Canadian listeners the ability to hear programs such as Limbaugh and Savage which Canadian stations cannot legally carry due to that country's laws and regulations against broadcast of what the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council and the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ( Canada's official broadcast regulator ) regard as racist, sexist or prejudicial " hate speech ".

The near limitless power of a high-ranking promagistrate has led to the term " proconsul " being used to designate any high-ranking and authoritative official appointed from above ( or from without ) to govern a territory without regard for local political institutions ( i. e., one who is not elected and whose authority supersedes that of local officials ).

In the summer of 2003 he made headlines again when another government official, Walter Wellinghausen, who held the office of a Staatsrat and was supported by Schill, was accused of illegally having a second employment ; finally, Schill was removed from office by first mayor Ole von Beust ( CDU ) on 19 August 2003, due to " not being qualified ( for the position ) with regard to his character " (" charakterlich nicht geeignet ").

Many police departments around the world have released official statements saying that they do not regard psychics as credible or useful on cases.

No patient advocacy organization has changed its official position in regard to refractive surgery, despite the allegations of Morris Waxler, PhD concerning criminal misconduct during the approvals process.

Even though the Book of Judith is not considered a part of the official Jewish religious canon, many Jewish scholars regard it as true reference to the background events relating to military struggle leading up to the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

John Carmack has expressed his stance with regard to Linux builds in the past.

The followers of Hindutva are known for their criticism of the Indian government as too passive with regard to the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus by Kashmiri Muslim separatists and advocates of Hindutva wish a harder stance in Jammu and Kashmir.

For some years he has taken an outspoken stance regarding the Middle East, resulting in a fierce criticism of the policies undertaken by the government of Israel with regard to the Palestinians.

There is however a difference of opinion as to what stance to take with individuals who violate halakha in this regard.

With regard to their belief in Tawheed-al-Asma was-Sifaat, or Belief in the Oneness of the Names and the Attributes of Allah, they take a stance of affirmation of all the Divine Names and Attributes of Allah in a manner that suits His Majesty, as mentioned in the Qu ’ ran and the Sunnah.

It may also form other brands of skepticism, such as Pyrrhonism, which do not take a positive stance in regard to the existence of god ( s ), but remain negative.

With regard to extraterrestrials in fiction, the term humanoid is most commonly used to refer to alien beings with a body plan that is generally like that of a human, including upright stance and bipedalism.

As they regard both sides of the 1953 split in the Fourth International to have affirmed this stance, which they regard as a fundamental breach with Leninism and Trotskyism, and as they believe all the major forces having emerged from the Fourth International to be implementing this false ' processist ' methodology today, they call for a new Fifth International to be built by the working class forces fighting neoliberalism worldwide, including from the workers ' trade unions, parties and other forces participating in the World Social Forum and analogous continental formations like the Asian and European Social Forums.

As they regard both sides of the 1953 split in the Fourth International to have affirmed this stance, which they regard as a fundamental breach with Leninism and Trotskyism, and as they believe all the major forces having emerged from the Fourth International to be implementing this false ' processist ' methodology today, they call for a new Fifth International to be built by the working class forces fighting neoliberalism worldwide, including from the workers ' trade unions, parties and other forces participating in the World Social Forum and analogous continental formations like the Asian and European Social Forums.

This debate was linked to other discussions on the nationalised industries in Britain and the increasingly critical stance of Haston and the RCP as to the leadership of the Fourth International with regard to Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia in particular.

The Times published its first report from the United States on December 4, and its correspondent, W. H. Russell, wrote of American reactions, “ There is so much violence of spirit among the lower orders of the people and they are … so saturated with pride and vanity that any honorable concession … would prove fatal to its authors .” Times editor John T. Delane, however, took a moderate stance and warned the people not to “ regard the act in the worst light ” and to question whether it made sense that the United States, despite British misgivings about Seward that went back to the earliest days of the Lincoln administration, would “ force a quarrel upon the Powers of Europe .”

In the ensuing months, Stupak publicly stated that the pressure and opposition he received in regard to his abortion stance on the health reform legislation had caused him to unplug the phone at his house due to " obscene phone calls and threats " and had made his life a " living hell.

The phalanx of men that convened were inexorable about doing something concerning the direction of the Government under Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and to come, James Buchanan, all of whom made no qualms about their stance on the “ slavery question .” The central plank of these conveners was “ to consider upon the measures which duty demands us, as of a Free State, to take in reference to the late acts of Congress on the subject of slavery, and its anticipated further extension .” Commerce in human bondage was construed by these men as “ a great moral, and social, and political evil ;” It was “ Resolved, that, postponing and suspending all differences with regard to political economy or administrative policy … we will act cordially and faithfully in unison ” to fight the approval of slavery, and “ we will cooperate and be known as ‘ Republicans ’ until the contest be terminated .”

The changes in Brazilian diplomacy were to be also reflected in other matters on the international agenda, such as the moderate stance taken with regard to the " Six-Day War " between Arabs and Israelis.

The elder Ford publicly hoped that the confrontational stance that he had sometimes used, particularly with regard to race, would never need to be employed by his son.

Tymoshenko again reiterated her stance in regard to becoming Prime Minister.

The phrase " I can't do backflips " has been used to connote one's own integrity and honesty with regard to a given policy stance.

Chia has stated his belief that representations by Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany in the mid-1980s played some part in the Singaporean government's decision to soften its stance in regard to him.

Awarded the highest artistic accolade in Ireland before his death in 2000, his unwillingness to take a clear moral stance with regard to his years spent in Nazi Germany has led to a great deal of controversy.

The book proved to be controversial within and outside feminism, e. g. in regard to standards of rationality, fashion and style, and her liberal stance.

With regard to their belief in Tawheed-al-Asma was-Sifaat, or Belief in the Oneness of the Names and the Attributes of Allah, they take a stance of affirmation of all the Divine Names and Attributes of Allah in a manner that suits His Majesty, as mentioned in the Qu ’ ran and the Sunnah.

Some people regard an opportunist stance positively as a legitimate choice, which can be the lesser evil.