Sentences with phrase «among other conventions»
Susan Hauptman (1947 — 2015) was an American artist known for her largescale charcoal and pastel self - portraits and still lifes that challenged feminine ideals — among other conventions — in direct, theatrical and sometimes... More»
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From Jan. 9 - 12, 180,000 people are expected to visit the convention to experience the self - driving cars, 8K televisions, and robots, among other things, that are on display.
Not only does the town of 2,000 have a giant USS Enterprise starship model and a «Tourism and Trek Station,» Vulcan also hosts an annual, three - day Star Trek convention (VulCON: Spock Days / Galaxyfest) every summer, featuring, among other things, Klingon karaoke.
The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.
It is projecting an Urbana - style convention on evangelical social witness, annual conferences for pastors to explore avenues for the involvement of congregations in community justice issues, and the formation of vocational task forces among evangelicals in politics, business and other callings, through which the shape of American political and business life might be altered to promote Christian values.
The 1948 Genocide Convention defines «genocide» as, among other things, «deliberately inflicting on» a religious group «conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.»
Each of these categories has its own potential legal order; e.g., the 1948 Declaration and subsequent Covenants; the New International Economic Order (NIEO) and various General Assembly resolutions on the rights and duties of states; and the Law of the Sea Convention, covering, among other things, «the right of peaceful passage through international straits.»
The sloppy wording of the outdated Convention, as understood through the Act, has led to the gagging of the press, gagging of freedom of speech and interference in privacy law, among other difficulties.
Convention topics include gun violence prevention and defending tenants» rights and affordability, among others.
Among other interesting fodder for discussion for this year's Republican Convention, there's rule 40b, which stipulates that:» (b) Each candidate for nomination for President of the United States...
The League says state lawmakers who were also against the constitutional convention now have to step up to the plate and enact real reforms to combat corruption and improve voting access, among other things.
«Unless we apply the break and uphold the rule of law and democratic conventions and practices in all ramifications, our greatest losses, moving forward, will not be economic recession, lack of critical infrastructure, among others, but an irredeemably deteriorated civilian rule where the decisions of the courts, letters and spirit of the law, resolutions of the legislature, electoral choices of Nigerians as expressed through the ballot no longer count.»
Among other reliefs, he sought a declaration that by true interpretation of sections 1, 4 and 5 of the Terrorism (Prevention)(Amendment) Act, 2013 and the United Nations Convention on Terrorism.
Several politicians including the Chairman of the People's National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah, former Trade Minister, Ekwow Spio - Garbrah, former Transport Minister, Dzifa Ativor, Deputy Minority Leader, James Klutse Avedzi among others joined the demonstration.
He held a news conference outside the Westchester hotel where the convention was held with a cartoonish sign depicting Cuomo as a privileged prince among other Democrats who have resigned in disgrace since the last governor's campaign four years ago.
Opponents of a convention fear opening up the constitution could put at risk hard - won labor and environmental protections, among others.
The League says state lawmakers who were also again the constitutional convention, now have to step up to the plate and enact real reforms to combat corruption and improve voting access, among other things.
Washington — When the Republican National Convention begins Monday in Tampa, Fla., Jane Loftus and about a dozen other Central New Yorkers will be among 4,400 delegates and alternates from across the nation.
Circuits of cells called mirror neurons that fire or send out signals when we see someone act in a way that's familiar may have played a role in a 20 - point, post — Republican Convention swing in allegiances among white, female Obama supporters to the GOP ticket, says Marco Iacoboni, author of the book Mirroring People: The Science of How We Connect with Others.
A new publication, The Global Land Outlook (GLO), was recently launched at the 13th meeting of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China.Speaking at the launch, UNCCD Executive Secretary Monique Barbut said how land degradation and drought are global challenges «intimately linked» to food security, migration and employment, among others factors.
The International Blue Carbon Policy Working Group supports efforts to integrate blue carbon in existing international policy frameworks such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) among others.
The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.
At the DLC's national convention in May of 1991, Bill Clinton and DLC delegates would endorse an education agenda that included, among other things, school choice, accountability, and Kolderie's idea, which the DLC explained as «giving entities other than school districts» the chance to operate public schools.
They undermine action on climate change and environmental protections; promote school privatization; defund unions and stop progressive wage and benefits policies; and, among other things, call for a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution to restrict the federal budget.
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 amended prior law to exclude the following types of facilities from those which can be financed on a tax - exempt basis: sports facilities; convention and trade show facilities; air and water pollution control facilities; privately owned airport, dock, wharf and mass - commuting facilities; and most parking facilities, among others.
The committee brings together representatives from the City of Ventura, Ventura Visitors & Convention Bureau, San Buenaventura Mission, Santa Cruz Island Foundation, Consulate of Mexico, City of Loreto, Mision Nuestra Senora de Loreto, Eco Alianza, and Sister Cities SOCAL among others.
Among other services, the hotel features exclusive bars and restaurants, outdoor swimming pool, spacious terraces and gardens, a convention centre and a fabulous wellness centre.
Among other deluxe amenities, the hotel features an excellent restaurant, bar, coffee - shop and discotheque, as well as a complete convention centre.
The storied 1315 Cherry Street location, which houses Vox and the Fabric Workshop among other arts organizations, is being razed in February to accomodate the expansion of the Philadelphia Convention Center.
The group exhibition, which is timed to the Democratic National Convention, starting today, July 25, features the work of Sam Durant, Hans Haacke, Pope L., Zoe Leonard, and Hank Willis Thomas, among others.
Critic Clement Greenberg, among others, was unconvinced, insisting that Turner never truly broke with the conventions of late 18th and early 19th century picture making.
Portraiture was also the theme of a lively summer group exhibition at Life on Mars in Bushwick, in which impressive work by Brenda Goodman, James Prez, Todd Bienvenu, Elisa Jensen, Clarity Haynes, and Edith Singer, among many others, dispensed with convention in favor of a more expressive and subversive form of representation.
Among the «tactics» elaborated are the hyperbolic mimicry of dominant social and linguistic conventions, the performance of gender and other aspects of identity, the usurpation of the modes of a new media culture and the marketplace, and the recycling of history and memory in a world traumatized by war.
Although the conventions of the still life have hardly been ignored in recent art, the combination is refreshing, especially since among both the contemporary and the more ancient names are some that are quite famous and others that are not at all.
I don't want readers to think that I am some kind of romantic Neomodernist looking for originality or genius in a work of art; in fact, I have written and spoken extensively against such a view on my blog and at this year's SECAC convention in Savannah, among other places.
Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD) SBSTTA 17: The 17th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice is expected to address, among others, issues related to marine and coastal biodiversity, biodiversity and climate change, and collaboration with the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
While citing the groups» progress in some states, the Heartland Institute's Guldenschuh posed the hard question: «[C] an leaders within the movement coordinate their efforts and cooperate with each other» to win an Article V convention, «or will the movement devolve into a circular firing squad as unfortunately happens all too often among conservative groups?»
As we shall see, these countries, among others, have continued to negotiate as if: (a) they only need to commit to reduce their greenhouse gas emission if other nations commit to do so, in other words that their national interests limit their international obligations, (b) any emissions reductions commitments can be determined and calculated without regard to what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, (c) large emitting nations have no duty to compensate people or nations that are vulnerable to climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The other countries now in the Convention, and among which it is in force, are Singapore, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.
Among other things, they have a valuable section on legal instruments, where you can find links to international conventions, regional IP agreements and legislation, bilateral IP agreements, some national IP laws (with a link over to WIPO's collection), and a section on model laws affecting IP and development.
Among the other documents askSam offers in free, searchable database versions are The Patriot Act, the 9 - 11 Commission report, transcripts from the 2004 presidential debates and speeches from the 2004 political conventions.
[7] While excluding judicial decisions and arbitral awards will limit the number of parties served by the instrument, the working group considered it best to avoid «overlap» with other conventions and minimize confusion among enforcement authorities over which instrument applies, although the final wording of this provision remains to be determined.
The action claims violations by Russia of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), alleging, among other things, that Russia:
The draft Practical Operation Handbook 2011 envisages that the children who could benefit from an implementation of the 1996 Convention include, among others:
Cases involving the international abduction of a child are governed, among other laws, by the international Hague Convention provision on International Child Abduction in those countries that are recognized as official adopters of the Hague Convention.
This revealed, among other things, that when the Bill had been introduced, the secretary of state had felt unable to make a statement pursuant to s 19 (1)(a) of HRA 1998 that the provisions of the Bill were compatible with Convention rights.
People who make refugee protection claims from outside Canada must go through an approval process, which requires, among other things, that they establish that they meet the definition of a «Convention refugee» or «protected person».
The Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR) to the Aarhus Convention, by contrast, requires Governments to collect annual reports on major greenhouse gas emissions (among other pollutants) by industry on a facility - by - facility basis and to share this information with the public.
Among other things, he argued that the Ontario law which incorporates the Hague Convention into Canadian law (namely, s. 46 of the Children's Law Reform Act (CLRA)-RRB- was in conflict with Canada's obligations to Convention refuges such as the girl.
Among her other writings were Privy Council, Cabinet, and Ministry in Britain and Canada: A Story of Confusion, Attitudes in the Philadelphia Convention towards the British System of Government, Constitutional law — citing Canada's Constitution — problems and proposed solutions; If the queen were to abdicate: procedure under Canada's constitution; Ontario's courts, 1867 - 1987: conflicts and confusion; Parliament, the Executive and the Governor - General; Parliamentary privilege in Canada; Robert's Rules of Order: editions, reprints, and competitors; The Canada Act 1982 — some facts and comments; The Judiciary in Canada: the Third Branch of Government, and Defining Constitution of the Province — The Crux of the Manitoba Language Controversy.