Sentences with phrase «by sovereign state»

Confirming the principle in the Seas and Submerged Lands case [69] that the «acquisition of territory by a sovereign state for the first time is an act of state which can not be challenged, controlled or interfered with by the Courts of that state», [70] Justice Brennan in Mabo identified the extent of the court's power as merely «determining the consequences of an acquisition [of sovereignty] under municipal law».

Their approach is indicative of a trend towards holding national governments accountable in law where they enter into contractual relationships with private citizens and corporations by limiting the protection afforded by sovereign state immunity.

A recent Court of Appeal ruling underlines the limits of the protection afforded by sovereign state immunity in arbitration proceedings.

Very often the risk of non-payment by a sovereign state is the greatest hurdle associated with funding a bilateral investment treaty arbitration.

Loud, ineffective measures like «sanctions» tend to be feeble responses by governments that want to tell each other that they are «doing something» about an unwanted action by a sovereign state, without actually going to war.

A third party country that uses force in territory controlled by another sovereign state, without the express or implied consent of a sovereign state with a legitimate claim to that territory, is an illegal aggressor under international law, rather than a participant in a collective security effort which international law recognizes as a legitimate reason to use military force.

Most world currencies are fiat currencies, but they are backed by sovereign states.

Prohibitions on abortion by sovereign states are not only compatible with the requirements of international human rights instruments but are in fact the most probable interpretation of those requirements.

If you buy treasury bonds issued by sovereign states in their own currency then the default risk is extremely low.

(1) A Regional Economic Integration Organisation which is constituted solely by sovereign States and has competence over some or all of the matters governed by this Convention may similarly sign, accept, approve or accede to this Convention.

Not exact matches

What we don't know the state of credit default swaps held by banks against sovereign debt and against European banks, nor do we know the state of CDS held by British banks, nor are we certain of how certain the exposure of British banks is to the Ireland sovereign debt problems.»

WESTERN Australia's relationship with China, infrastructure and a state sovereign wealth fund were among the big - picture topics addressed by Premier Colin Barnett at last week's WA Business News Success & Leadership Series Breakfast.

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A civil complaint filed by Justice Department officials in the United States said that some of the funds landed in the hands of Mr. Najib's friends and associates as well as officials and executives from Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund.

However, in August 2011 the long - term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America was downgraded to AA + from AAA by the Standard & Poor's ratings agency, reflecting increasing concerns about the U.S. budget deficit and its future trajectory.

Mrs Merkel — or La Signora No in Italy — doused hopes of a break - through on proposals by the «Latin Bloc» leaders of Italy, France, and Spain to deploy the funds (EFSF and ESM) to cap the bond yields of «virtuous» countries vulnerable to contagion, or to recapitalize banks directly to take the strain off sovereign states.

If China decides to retaliate by unloading significant quantities of U.S. sovereign debt, it could cause a significant spike in rates at a time when the United States is running a high deficit and rates are already inching up.

Global bond funds invest in a wide variety of bonds issued by various public and private entities around the world, including sovereign governments, international agencies, state and local authorities, and private corporations.

The sovereign supervision is holding a back chair as it does with many new approaches are tested by states, something not odd for the country.

By Thomas Clouse, Jonathan Gregson, Antonio Guerrero & Gordon Platt REGIONAL ECONOMY ON SOLID GROWTH PATH Asia's regional economy continues to grow steadily, despite the tepid recovery in the United States and sovereign debt issues in Europe.

Cryptocurrencies threaten to disrupt the West's economic power by decentralizing the operation of the financial system outside sovereign states» control.

The nation is not only the third largest by race in the world, but because of the miss of unchanging and tangible sovereign regulations, states are generally giveaway to take their possess position on the matter.

With this as their point of departure, the bishops further suggest a process of negotiations to achieve three objectives: «First, it should formalize Israel's existence as a sovereign state in the eyes of the Arab states and the Palestinians; second, it should establish an independent Palestinian homeland with its sovereign status recognized by Israel; third, there must he negotiated limits to the exercise of Palestinian sovereignty so that it is clear that Israel's security is protected» (my emphasis).

The pope is a head o state of a sovereign country, several times the age of the US Empire and the pope used a cheap car to travel from the airport in Rio (a city where the mayor and governor travel by helicopter all the time) and stayed at a modest lodging belonging to the Catholic Church, not a 5 Star Hotel.

mama kindless... I'm sorry to disappoint you but Israel is A SOVEREIGN STATE and has every right to defend its borders by creating walls, barries, etc..

«Such a principled recognition by our Parliament and Government will facilitate rather than hamper the negotiations that would inevitably follow between Israelis and Palestinians to agree upon the details of this new and sovereign state created next to a secure Israel.

Considering the history of conflicts between Church and State, it would seem more prudent for Christians, Jews, and others of good will to take the position that the death penalty is justified as long as it is carried out by a lawful sovereign, not inflicted in a cruel and unusual manner, and imposed only on those convicted of heinous crimes by due process of law.

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.

J. J. Altizer, for example, maintained boldly by stating, «Throughout its history Christian theology has been thwarted from reaching its intrinsic goal by its bondage to a transcendent, a sovereign, and an impassive God».

They, soon reinforced, we may hope, by a more clear - eyed U.S. policy, may succeed in recalling the United Nations to its former and more modest self — a necessary, if frequently irritating, instrument of sovereign states in search of cooperation without abdication.

If the Supreme Court somehow obtained jurisdiction over this independent sovereign power, according to Coons it would not be acting «either as or for the state, but as the arbiter of legal sovereigns who need a way to live together by some rule more humane than naked power.»

Neville there were times when dominionism worked for Israel which were the exceptions rather than the rule but generally it did nt sadly because of the wickedness of peoples hearts.Power tends to corrupt people ie in the case of nebbucanezzar especially when they succeed.Like you i think Gods people have more impact by just letting Christ work through them could be me but i find politics tends to involve power money and compromise.Regardless of what political state we find ourselves Gods sovereign and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven.My focus is real simple just follow Jesus with all my heart mind soul and strength and love others as myself and that is just following Jesus daily and trusting him in everything.regards brentnz

At home, sovereign states kill by the use of police power.

Kerygma properly means a public announcement or declaration, whether by a town crier, or by an auctioneer commending his goods to the public, or by the herald of a sovereign state dispatched on a solemn mission, to present an ultimatum, it may be, or to announce terms of peace.

The modern theory, which swept away every authority except that of the State, and has made the sovereign power irresistible by multiplying those who share it... condemns as a State within the State every inner group and community, class or corporation, administering its own affairs; and, by proclaiming the abolition of privileges, it emancipates the subjects of every such authority in order to transfer them exclusively to its own....

Until a little over a century ago the papacy was itself a temporal power, one of the major states of Italy, and it remains to this day a sovereign state recognized diplomatically by many nations.

That idea worked well for the postulated hard particles of pure physics; but it certainly leads to mischief when it inspires the notion of supposedly separate «sovereign states,» each within its own body (a «body politic») marked off from the rest by the sharp lines defining their collision.

They are still held captive by an epistemology borrowed from the modern university, with its notion of detached objectivity, the fact - value dichotomy, the separation of emotion and reason (with reason as the superior means of knowing) and the loss of any authority other than an isolated, sovereign self that is subservient to the needs of the modern nation - state.

In conclusion it is stated that the aforesaid Jurors declared Thomas More falsely, traitorously and maliciously by craft imagined, invented, practiced and attempted wholly to deprive our sovereign Lord and king of his dignity, supreme head in earth of the Church of England, to manifest contempt of the king and in derogation of his royal crown..

International law recognizes conquest during a war as one of the legitimate ways by which a sovereign state may acquire territory from another sovereign state.

The Cabinet Manual states that «[t] he point at which the restrictions on financial and other commitments should come to an end depends on circumstances, but may often be either when a new Prime Minister is appointed by the Sovereign or where a government's ability to command the confidence of the Commons has been tested in the House of Commons» (§ 2.30).

This principle, however, is subject to an emerging exception to allow military intervention by a third - party sovereign state to prevent or interrupt a domestic genocide in another sovereign state.

International law involving disputes between sovereign states, unlike most kinds of law, isn't something that gets resolved definitively by a tribunal in most cases.

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«Now Therefore I, Lieutenant - Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu - Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles recited above,» he announced in a broadcast, which thereafter triggered wild jubilations in the streets, «do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria, together with her continental shelf and territorial waters, shall henceforth be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of Biafra.»

It has a government (two actually, when counting Hamas) the Palestinian Authority, diplomatic relations with other states and is recognized by a majority of the world's sovereign states:

This theory concludes that a regional entity is considered an independent state or a person in international law if and only if it is recognized as such by other sovereign entities.

According to them, much as they are «very much aware of the constitutional process the government is abiding by and wish to commend government for respecting the constitution of the state,» there are some issues «which do not only undermine our sovereign rights as indigenes of the Volta Region of Ghana but also violate some sections of the 1992 constitution».

The Scotland Act 1998 could be amended to legally recognise what is an existing constitutional fact: that the Scottish people have constituent power, that they possess the capacity to create a sovereign state by seceding from the United Kingdom.

It further outlined the process by which other states who claimed to be sovereign could be acknowledged as such.