Sentences with phrase «european conventions»

The pictorial realism of Dutch Baroque art is married to such traditional European conventions as the open window in the corner of the Thomas Smith portrait, adding an idea of space.

Cole's early Hudson River landscapes, largely completed in the 1820s, presented the American rural scene through European conventions of the picturesque and sublime - in a sense, a sort of combination of Claude Lorrain and Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840).

Poet William Carlos Williams («No ideas but in things») enjoined American artists to learn to see their local surroundings without recourse to European conventions, to overcome the emotional alienation imposed by a Puritan heritage suspicious of nature.

It also carried implicit comparisons with the African sculptures whose example had encouraged a break with European conventions.

The Main Edition is feature documentary with two bonus segments covering two European conventions: B.U.C.K. in the UK and Galacon in Germany.

The coup attempt failed within a day, and Erdogan was quick to use the opportunity to solidify his already increasingly authoritarian rule by implementing a three - month state of emergency, temporarily suspending the European Convention on Human Rights, and removing tens of thousands of employees from military and government positions.

He has accused the state of breaching two clauses of the European Convention on Human Rights, one which prohibits «inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment», and one which guarantees the right of respect for «private and family life» and «correspondence».

Mr Ngole will argue the decision to exclude him is illegal under the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects freedom of speech and freedom of thought.

According to Quakers in Britain, the hearing at Stratford Magistrates Court this week was told that their rights must be upheld under the European Convention of Human Rights.

Article 9 of the European Convention of human rights supports religious freedom.

In an interview with the Church of Ireland Gazette, he also blamed negative attitudes towards the EU on recent European human rights judgments which he supported, saying: «The fact is, of course, we have absorbed the European Convention on Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he said.

During the three - day hearing, the NIHRC will argue that abortion laws in Northern Ireland - which hasn't adopted the 1967 Abortion Act - infringe on women's right enshrined in the European Convention of Human Right (ECHR)

They will, he says, be powerless to stop same - sex couples demanding the same weddings as heterosexuals under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Mr Ngole had argued that his rights to freedom of speech and thought, enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, had been breached.

This has often been stressed by the European Commission and Court of Human Rights when applying the rules of the European Convention regarding civil and political rights.

«Employees who face work requirements incompatible with their faith, and have the option of resigning and seeking alternative employment, can not claim for a breach of Article 9» of the European Convention on Human Rights, Britain will argue.

The attack on pro-life Ireland resumed with a vengeance in 2005, when three women accused Ireland of violating their basic rights under the European Convention on Human Rights by prohibiting abortion.

He added the McArthur family could avail of the European Convention on Human Rights to refuse to express a political opinion which was contrary to their religious beliefs, warning there was no objective or reasonable justification for interference.

By a vote of 9 - 8, the court held that Spain did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights when it declined to renew the contract of a public school teacher who had been offering classes in Catholicism.

In fact, the European Convention on Human Rights protects both religious and secular convictions.

Mr Conway previously asked the High Court for a declaration that the Suicide Act 1961 is incompatible with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which relates to respect for private and family life, and Article 14, which protects from discrimination.

The Human Rights Act (1998) gives further legal effect in the UK to the fundamental rights and freedoms contained in the European Convention on Human Rights.

Permits the Irish courts to hear arguments about the European Convention on Human Rights in cases before them

Helps develop Irish law that respects the rights and freedoms protected by the European Convention on Human Rights

In Ireland we ratified the European Convention of Human Rights in 1953 and it became an ACT in 2003.

A preliminary report by peers and MPs today finds new offences of encouragement of terrorism and attending terrorist training camps could be incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

He was responding to Conservative calls to reform or even scrap the 1998 act, which enshrines the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into UK legislation.

British judges should be allowed to interpret the European Convention on Human Rights to take account of British circumstances.»

Mr Prescott also called on ministers to ratify the European Convention on Human Trafficking, described by campaigners as the modern form of slavery.

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), in Article 7 states:

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is a separate court of equal stature which is responsible not for upholding EU law, which is the ECJ's job, but for upholding the separate European Convention on Human Rights.

«These measures, if confirmed, may have a potentially chilling effect on journalists» freedom of expression as guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights [ECHR],» chief executive Thorbjorn Jagland wrote.

The European Convention of Human Rights recognises that privacy (article 8) is an important but not inviolable right.

This system has been ruled to violate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the case Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, because the presidency was guaranteed to the three major ethnicities, with Jews and Roma being excluded.

The Conservatives have called on the government to ratify the European convention on action against human trafficking immediately.

The CIOT says there is a big risk that the GAAR penalties will be deemed incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights if they are disproportionate or do not comply with the principles of legal certainty.

This would have redefined the UK's relationship with the European Convention on Human Rights, signed after the Second World War, which Tories say is being taken far too literally.

Territorial scope of European Convention on Human Rights Wikipedia article does not include Belarus.

As Swedish officials have argued, their own legislation, along with their obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, stipulate that they can not extradite an individual to a country where he / she might face the death penalty.

In Europe, disclosure rules must be consistent with the European Convention on Human Rights, which gives a right to privacy, except as necessary for the protection of public good.

All four claimants» arguments rested on articles nine, which guarantees freedom of religion, and 14, which prohibits discrimination, of the European Convention of Human Rights.

«These rights would be based on those set out in the European Convention on Human Rights, while also taking into account our common law tradition.»

But until they decide to, the courts will continue to apply the old English law of confidence, modified by the right to a private life from the European Convention on Human Rights, as is their duty.

The constitutional change agenda gained momentum after the 1997 Labour landslide, when important changes were passed, like devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Human Rights Act that incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.

Coming back to European Convention on Human Rights country list, I see that many, if not almost all Post-Soviet states (e.g. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Russia) have ratified several or all the protocols (some exceptions may occur) from the Convention.

The government's policy on leaving the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) was as clear as mud today, after reports emerged it was considering leaving only for Theresa May to under play them.

The draft «Brighton declaration», distributed to the 46 signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights, contains a series of measures which seek to hand back more powers to national governments.

If a future Tory government carries out its plan, and withdraws from the European Convention, the UK government would be embracing pariah status; the first worldwide to introduce a new bill of rights with the aim of providing fewer rights to its citizens.Without the protection of European human rights law, UK citizens will be left systematically vulnerable.

The statement she issued yesterday in which she claimed she would «change the law» if human rights standards «got in the way» of security and counter-terrorism boils down to one thing: she is campaigning, once again, to repeal the Human Rights Act and withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

The Conservative Manifesto argues that the Human Rights Act, 1998 (HRA) should be scrapped and replaced with a British Bill of Rights based on «common sense,» but that is still consistent with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).