Sovereignty does not give carte blanche for conduct that is incompatible with the values and commitments to which we have subscribed within the United Nations
In the 1970s and early '80s, when lesbian feminists rejected the butch and femme identities that Hall's novel had helped to define, writers like Jane Rule and Blanche Wiesen Cook criticised The Well for defining lesbianism in terms of masculinity, as well as for presenting lesbian life as "joyless".
It remained doubtful whether the efficacy of human rights guarantees was ensured if the parties to a human rights instrument were in principle given carte blanche to rewrite its provisions
The carte blanche that has been offered to our neighbour along with the commitments to build up its strategic and conventional capabilities has encouraged its hegemonic ambitions, which are aimed at charting a course of dangerous adventurism whose consequences can be both unintended and uncontrollable.
What constitutes an offence of “blasphemy” frequently remains merely vaguely circumscribed, thus giving Governments carte blanche to apply such laws in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner.
Thus, the maxim ex factis jus oritur does not amount to a carte blanche, as Law plays its role also in the emergence of rights out of the tension between Sollen and Sein.
Secondly, States must not just note that there are gaps in their own legislation and, by doing nothing, in effect, grant carte blanche to private military security companies
The tensions between John and the Anglo-Norman barons finally began to spill over into the First Barons' War in 1215, and Louis of France led an invasion to England in support of his claim to the English throne, as husband of Blanche, a maternal granddaughter of Henry II, whilst Innocent III argued that Eleanor had a better claim than John's.
The General Assembly adopted six resolutions under agenda item “Towards global partnerships” which, while recognizing the value of the Global Compact, refrain from giving “carte blanche” to the initiative.