Human Rights Watch released a report on the situation in 1989, which stated: " contras were major and systematic violators of the most basic standards of the laws of armed conflict, including by launching indiscriminate attacks on civilians, selectively murdering non-combatants, and mistreating prisoners.

Clarke has stated that each book of the series takes place in its own universe and, apart from its basic concepts, has no consistent relationship with one another.

Savoy dancer " Shorty " George Snowden stated that " We used to call the basic step the Hop long before Lindbergh did his hop across the Atlantic.

In an interview, Stanley Miller stated: " Just turning on the spark in a basic pre-biotic experiment will yield 11 out of 20 amino acids.

However, the basic concept of peer-to-peer computing was envisioned in earlier software systems and networking discussions, reaching back to principles stated in the first Request for Comments, RFC 1.

Notably, civil liberties organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) have stated that racial profiling is a form of discrimination, stating, " Discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality or on any other particular identity undermines the basic human rights and freedoms to which every person is entitled.

The theory covers approaches to statistical-decision problems and to statistical inference, and the actions and deductions that satisfy the basic principles stated for these different approaches.

The chairman of the Russian Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin, pointing to the Markin v. Russia case, stated that Russia has the right to create a mechanism of protection from Court decisions " touching the national sovereignity, the basic constitutional principles ".

On 27 May he stated " Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel.

Much remains unknown of their basic ecology and behavior in the wild, and a 2004 report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature stated that " in-depth study of the species, with particular emphasis on habitat use and population dynamics in the wild, is overdue.

They also stated that the proposed Act is consistent with the basic principle that grants the Congress broad discretion to establish procedures to govern its internal operations.

In January 1977, four years prior to becoming president, Reagan bluntly stated, in a conversation with Richard V. Allen, his basic expectation in relation to the Cold War.

A 2000 Texas A & M study stated that of the residents of Cameron County, 43 % do not have basic literary skills.

However, the basic rules are simply stated, and provide a convenient basis on which to discuss differences in rulesets.

Durham stated, " Dissemination is a lens-sometimes a usefully distorting one-that helps us tackle basic issues such as interaction, presence, and space and time … on the agenda of any future communication theory in general " ( Durham, 211 ).

He went further and stated that the cell was the basic unit of the body that had to be studied to understand disease.

" And while he noted that ballads and jazz was " his basic soul ", he stated Gaye " had the ability to take a roughhouse, rock and roll, blues, R & B, any kind of song and make it his own ", later citing that Gaye was the most versatile vocalist he ever worked with.

This variant of the Burnside problem can also be stated in terms of certain universal groups with m generators and exponent n. By basic results of group theory, the intersection of two subgroups of finite index in any group is itself a subgroup of finite index.

His most important paper, On the mechanical theory of heat, published in 1850, first stated the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics.

The primary goal of research in combinatorial computational geometry is to develop efficient algorithms and data structures for solving problems stated in terms of basic geometrical objects: points, line segments, polygons, polyhedra, etc.

The New York Times review of the novel named Rand " a writer of great power " who writes " brilliantly, beautifully and bitterly ," and it stated that she had " written a hymn in praise of the individual ... you will not be able to read this masterful book without thinking through some of the basic concepts of our time.

In an interview with Alhayat TV, she stated that the first requirement of a new constitution should be that it " safeguard basic fundamental human rights, like our First Amendment ".

This release stated in part " The government will retain the mandatory short form that will collect basic demographic information.

Bartelt has stated that Hovind's doctoral dissertation is evidence of the poor requirements at Patriot and that Hovind lacks knowledge of basic science.

The rules can be stated formally as:

Under unspecific or impersonal coercion the conditional threats come from well-known and socially accepted general rules and – rather than any individual or sub-group – and are directed against anybody in the stated conditions, according to clearly stated principles of due process.

However, the new rules also stated that exceptions to the rule would be allowed in certain cases.

While not addressing the allegations directly, Clemens stated: " I could care less about the rules " and " I've talked to some friends of his and I've teased them that when you're under house arrest and have ankle bracelets on, you have a lot of time to write a book.

Marc Miller has stated that he believes " Traveller: The New Era " to be the " most controversial " edition of Traveller to date, due to that version's use of a different rules system and the radical changes to the setting.

The official rules of the madison, traditionally regarded as being hard to follow, are stated as follows by British Cycling, the British Governing Body of Cycling:

IWF rules previously stated that an athlete's knees and elbows must be visible so officials can determine if a lift is correctly executed.

When it was accepted the rules stated that the arm could not be raised above the shoulder.

It was for this reason, as much as it was for those stated by Annan, that a five-member District Assembly Committee was created in each of the nation's 110 administrative districts and was charged by the NCD with ensuring that all candidates followed electoral rules.

" In their original formulation ( Chomsky 1957 ), these rules were stated as rules that held over strings of either terminals or constituent symbols or both.

He has stated ( LCI French TV channel, September 12, 2005 and book Le monde n ' est pas une marchandise ) that he is not against the existence of WTO and global rules.

His resistance, as stated by his followers, is directed towards the absence of democracy in the approval of rules and their content.

The international rules for aviation records stated that " The pilot remains in his craft from launch to landing ".

In addition, the series seems to contradict some ideas in Amber or rules stated in the original ten books.

The former rules stated airlines without an international scheduled service from Heathrow prior to 1 April 1977 would not be permitted operations there ; instead they would have to use Gatwick.

William Holdsworth argues that it was his learning in Roman law and jurisprudence which allowed him to work so effectively ; because he had seen other legal systems at work, he " could both criticise the defects of English law and state its rules in a more orderly form than they had ever been stated before ".

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, founded in France in 1905 to verify aviation records, stated among its rules that an aircraft should be able to take off under its own power in order to qualify for a record.

Those rules are " simply stated, if not simply applied.

Most of these were inserted in the Index at a time when the Index itself stated that the prohibition of someone's " opera omnia " ( all his works ) did not cover works whose contents did not concern religion and were not forbidden by the general rules of the Index, but this explanation was omitted in the 1929 edition, an omission that was officially interpreted in 1940 as meaning that thenceforth " opera omnia " covered all the author's works without exception.

Even though WBC rules stated the mandatory challenger should receive a shot at the title, the WBC insisted Chacon fight Héctor Camacho in Puerto Rico instead, then stripped him of his title when he refused.

The transformation rules for polar vectors and pseudovectors can be compactly stated as