Sentences with phrase «by international forces»

UNAMA said aerial strikes killed 69 of the 223 civilian deaths by international forces in the first half of 2010 - a decrease of 64 % from the same period in 2009.

Also, I've mentioned previously that the long end of the yield curve today is probably being influenced by international forces, as rates are lower overseas.

Not exact matches

The campaign to abolish the trans - Atlantic slave trade began more than two centuries ago, and forced labour is prohibited by two 20th - century conventions — the more recent International Labour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratforced labour is prohibited by two 20th - century conventions — the more recent International Labour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratForced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratified.

Canada was not in compliance with those treaties so it's a move that's also being forced by international organizations.

Ultimately, however, it wants to become a marketing force by creating custom emojis for international brands — in return for a sizeable check.

And the credibility behind that power will need to be demonstrated by limited American forces remaining in Iraq and potentially in or around Syria, all of them authorized to defend the international guarantees and decentralized order.

It may now be forced to default on its debt to international lenders if not bailed out by the Russian government.

Indeed, in a classic paper written in the early 1960s, Mundell (Mundell, 1963) showed how, in a world of complete asset substitutability and perfect capital mobility, real interest rates would be largely determined by international market forces with the exchange rate moving in response to changes in domestic monetary policy to provide most of the desired accommodation or tightening.

Attempts to export its excess savings can only lead to one of three outcomes: A) global growth rises because Europe's savings are all directed at developing countries with significant infrastructure investment needs and insufficient capital, B) global growth drops sharply, global unemployment rises, and China's adjustment becomes all but impossible, C) international trade and capital flows collapse in a repeat of the 1930s, so that Europe is forced to resolve its savings imbalance either by a massive increase in unemployment or a wave of sovereign defaults.

World events: Economies become volatile when regimes change, fuel prices go way up or down, and when the United States» trade is impacted by any number of domestic and international forces.

While organisations such as the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors take the lead in setting global standards, we contribute to global regulatory initiatives by participating in their task forces and committees to work on implementing financial regulatory reforms, enhancing standards and facilitating market development.

The Australian government explains that it has taken the same approach that countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada have taken regarding digital currency businesses because it will facilitate innovation and follow guidance issued by the Financial Action Task Force — the international regulator for preventing money laundering, terrorism financing, and other dangers that hinder the world's financial system.

Since economists, especially by those that specialize in international business economics, know that an economy that is not growing faster than its population or labor force is not growing, it's very important to that into account even though for «political» reasons the CB, and NBER do not report that consideration, and thus the financial media do not either.

The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's long - running «one - child policy,» replete with forced abortions, public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here — in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged as wrongs even by international human - rights bureaucracies.

The American Search for Peace: Moral Reasoning, Religious Hope, and National Security edited by George Weigel and John R. Langan Georgetown University Press, 281 pages, $ 30 The «correlation of forces,» as the Marxists used to say, has dramatically transformed the international arena in the last few years, and some of these essays may not take that adequately into account.

The openhearted observer of Islam in the West can discern the shape of hope in the increasing willingness of people of the two faiths to come together for dialogue and consultation on the mutual problems they face; in the reevaluation of Islam forced upon Muslims by their minority status in many places; and in the development of the concept of international law and universal human rights.

The war in Vietnam forced us to look from unaccustomed perspectives at the role played by the United States in international affairs.

The opportunity to try this significant experiment in an inter-racial, international religion of converted individuals was given to the early Christians and indeed was forced upon them by Judaism itself when it drove them from the synagogue.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

For example, in principle the UN has «the right to intervene, by force if necessary, in conflicts where no peace has been established, in order to set right conditions deemed to pose a threat to international peace and security.»

Recovery of that which has been wrongly taken and punishment of evildoing are not explicitly named as justifications for the use of armed force by states in international law, but arguably they have been subsumed into the concept of self - defense: the former being recast as defense against an armed attack still in progress, as in the recovery of Kuwait from Iraq in 1991, the latter being recast as the right of retaliation.

In a video posted by ADF International, which is supporting Masterpiece Cake shop in court, they said: «Hi, I'm TJ, and I'm Matt, we're gay and we're here to support Jack Phillips... to buy stuff from him, and support him because we don't think any artist should be forced to create for something that violates their beliefs.»

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

Among the many positions taken by these critics, the argument most relevant to our present theme is that the rise of international institutions under the umbrella of the United Nations system represents the leading edge of a new global system of government that has superseded the state in important respects, including the right to judge when resort to armed force is legitimate.

But a recent book by international economist Branko Milanovic, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, has helped me grasp some of the underlying forces that are driving the leaders away from the led.

The unipolarist ideology by whatever name, adds a fourth party to the foreign - policy debate, which has otherwise involved 1) liberal internationalists, who seek world peace and stability by securing collective agreements from nation states to comply with international law; 2) realists, who seek to ensure a balance of power among competing regimes; and 3) principled anti-interventionists, who renounce the use of military force for all reasons besides self - defense.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

It is interesting that the other major emerging force in Italian politics in recent years, the Five Star Movement (M5S), which took 32.6 percent of the vote in the recent elections, has so far been treated more kindly by both the Italian and the international media, being generally described as «antiestablishment,» «Euroskeptic,» or, at worst, «populist.»

Disagreements will arise over the seriousness of particular threats, whether «just cause» and «last resort» are present for the use of military force, the utility of nonviolent and persuasive methods, whether a missile defense system (required by the strategy paper) is itself defensible practically and morally, and whether the U.S. should make interventionary decisions unilaterally or with international consent and support.

The highly unusual application made by Sant Baba Jeet Singh Ji Maharaj and his followers would force the courts to intervene in an international religious dispute over the ownership of three gurdwaras, or temples, in Bradford, Birmingham and High Wycombe.

The foundation for the regime was laid down in United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted on December 10, 1948 by the UN General Assembly) and the two key human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (in force since January 3, 1976) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (in force since March 23, 1976).

Earlier I challenged you to do something positive for humanity by praying to stop the international forced sëx trafficking of an estimatated 800,000 people.

The result of the task force was the development of two practical tools: The Guide for Assessing Equivalence of Standards and Technical Regulations (EquiTool) and the International Requirements for Organic Certification Bodies (IROCB) which can be used by any government or private sector organic label scheme for recognizing other organic standards and certification performance requirements as equivalent to their own.

However, that doesn't seem to have been enough to force United to speed up contract talks, as reported by The Sun, with the England international still waiting on a new deal despite having 15 months remaining on his current agreement.

Despite seeing Emre Can take control of long ball forward by Palace, Bolasie harried the Germany U21 international and eventually forced him into an error as the ex-Bayern Munich man brought down the Leopards star.

France international Kondogbia, 24, has had a massive falling out with his club Inter Milan this week after refusing to turn up to training last week, which has lead to the player being forced to train on his own and away from the first team, as reported by Talksport, with the midfielder having been fined # 200,000 following the incident.

no one ordered the man to build a strike force around walcott and giroud or to put a quid on suarez «s asking price or to bring in nogo and park (or perez for that matter) or to sell gnabry and play iwobi regularly or to have ramsey playing in every position bar goalkeeper or to take 7 years to work out how to get the best from Ox or to believe merteshaker was alright for the epl when he was way past his international sell by date or to forego a world class DM for 5 years and then plonk down 30 odd mill on an average swiss international or try out a series of makeshift right backs and hope bellerin would maintain his earlier form and fitness... stan n`chips and co are certainly a shocking example of contemporary football ownership but on the pitch its all down to wenger and his delusions

With such fierce competition for places in Thomas Tuchel's side this season, the USA international could be forced to bide his time and wait for opportunities, but he showed by scoring in the 6 - 0 win over Darmstadt at the weekend that he is more than capable of making a positive impact.

Another defender who hasn't been helped by the ongoing injury crisis, the Argentine international has played more than any other defender for United this year, and suffered badly from being forced to play with a different backline every week.

The one - cap Brazil international has generally been ignored by Luiz Felipe Scolari, despite his great form, but a brilliant finish to the season could see him force his way into World Cup contention at the eleventh hour.

We also have the possibility, in another report by Metro today, that the 22 - year old who is currently on international duty and has helped the Spain under 21 team into the Euro finals, could try to force the hand of his manager, as did Cesc Fabregas when he wanted to head back to the Nou Camp.

The talented youngster is said to have been spotted by United scout Marcel Bout last year while working with Louis van Gaal, while Baars had informed Ajax of his intention to leave for Manchester in January but was forced to wait until the end of the season in order to secure international clearance.

As noted by The Sun, both Chelsea and Man United were credited with an interest in the Belgian international but they will be forced to look elsewhere this summer to bolster their respective attacking options.

The Canaries decided to swoop for the 33 - year - old Nigerian international after an injury sustained by regular centre back Michael Turner forced manager Chris Hughton into action.

The Catalan giants have been heavily linked with a move for Paris Saint - Germain star Marco Verratti this summer, but as reported by Marca, Barca have been forced to start considering alternatives as the French outfit have no desire to allow the Italian international to leave.

Arsenal open to cancelling long - serving international's contract to force transfer away Study reveals 20 most valuable Under 21s in Europe, Arsenal and Chelsea stars left trailing by Liverpool's Raheem Sterling

The former international and first - choice keeper for Sporting Lisbon had enjoyed a successful career before allegations of rape, instigated by the political police of the regime, forced him to flee to Spain.

Fadel Abbas was shot by security forces as ha tried to visit a recently released prisoner.The Bahraini authorities must immediately investigate the death, said Amnesty International.

PSG coach Unai Emery admitted that Brazilian midfielder Lucas Moura and French international striker Hatem Ben Arfa are interested in leaving in January, but said nothing about Pastore and Angel Di Maria, who has expressed his annoyance at being forced out of the first team by new arrivals Neymar and Kylian Mbappe.

DORTMUND: Spain international Marc Bartra underwent wrist surgery after being injured when the Borussia Dortmund team bus was rocked by a series of explosions that forced the postponement of their Champions League match against Monaco.