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The Hague

Proper noun

Meaning

A municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.

A city and capital of South Holland, Netherlands; administrative capital of the Netherlands.

(metonymically) The International Criminal Court or International Court of Justice.

(figuratively, by extension, sometimes hyperbolic) Punishment for a very destructive, harmful or immoral act.

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The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention. Paul Blobel

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference. Charles Albert Gobat

If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war. Charles Albert Gobat

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did. Otto Hahn

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943. Simon van der Meer

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition. Otto Hahn

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