Sentences with phrase «considered by the convention»

Among the 71 proposals being considered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Bangkok March 3 — 14 are four involving marine species.

Not exact matches

Women's suffrage — or the political fight to enfranchise women — is widely considered to have begun with the Seneca Fall convention, as chronicled by this U.S. House's Office of the Historian.

Of course, by refusing to consider the slaveholders for appointment, the Triennial Convention adopted a de facto anti-slavery stance.

Article 4 (2) Adoption by States Parties of special measures, including those measures contained in the present Convention, aimed at protecting maternity, shall not be considered discriminatory.

We find that not only do visitors look for this area, but more frequently, we are asked by convention / event organizers about the availability of this accommodation when they are considering our venue for their national conventions and meetings.

By the way it has been considered and proposed several times at state level including, the Illinois State Constitutional Convention that was called in 1970.

In September 2013, the Convention considered the question of extending the vote in Presidential elections for citizens resident outside the jurisdiction; this was passed by a strong majority, with powerful contributions made by video - link from Irish citizens resident in a range of other countries.

Under the proposed changes fewer cases would come before the court, as those «identical in substance to a claim that has been considered by a national court» would no longer be eligible - unless the national court had failed to interpret the convention correctly.

The comments by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie during a joint appearance at the Times Union's media center in Albany come as voters this November will consider a referendum whether to hold a constitutional convention.

Although DeFrancisco is hurt by widespread GOP support of Marc Malorino — his chief rival in the May nominating convention — voters should consider DeFrancisco's vow to cut taxes, his previous positions on the Syracuse City School District Board of Education and city council and his 40 - year undefeated record in political races.

Indeed, although it had not been abused enough by the time of the 1961 Convention for states to consider it worthwhile explicitly laying out that the rules about personae non gratae could be applied to diplomatic couriers, even though it was generally considered that they could, later draft articles from the International Law Commission explicitly dealt with this subject, clearly supporting the notion that the U.K. can follow U.K. law in this way and proactively or immediately deny Assange diplomatic courier status.

Off topic questions included a Department of Investigations report detailing problems with corrections officers at Rikers Island, de Blasio's message to protestors resuming anti-NYPD protests, his relationship with police unions, a call by the head of the Lieutentants Benevolent Association to strengthen laws concerning resisting arrest, an increase in police protection for Jewish organizations and sites and Dov Hikind's claim of a decrease in police presence, delays in the implementation of the City's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requests.

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

The convention referendum, being considered next month by voters, is placed on the ballot every 20 years.

Dr Hassan Ayariga said the ground that he did not properly fill his nomination form as cited by the EC is baseless considering he went through the same process before contesting the 2012 presidential election on the ticket of the People's National Convention (PNC).

Clarke was replaced as Lord Chancellor by Chris Grayling, a Eurosceptic who was also considered far less friendly to both the Human Rights Act and European Convention on Human Rights, both constant sources of scorn amongst grassroots Tories.

To be considered for nomination by a convention, a minor party candidate must file an application for nomination no later than 6 p.m. on the second Monday in December of an odd - numbered year, preceding the minor party's convention.

Ms. Rice had the most support among Democratic officials at the state Democratic convention in May — though party leaders ultimately decided to allow all five candidates on the primary ballot — and is considered by her opponents to have the implicit backing of Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, the Democratic candidate for governor.

«By convention, we consider the time of onset to be the last time the patient seemed normal.

By convention 1 MET is considered the resting metabolic rate obtained during quiet sitting.

Spirulina has been evaluated by the US Pharmacopeial Convention and is considered safe (67).

This was a little better than the group on the convention but not by much and it's still far from below what's considered a healthy BMI of 25 or less.

Those prophetic and poetic words, spoken by Guillermo del Toro, resonated loudly with the Hollywood heavyweights and cinema aficionados gathered inside the Palm Springs Convention Center Tuesday eve for the 29th annual Palm Springs Film Festival opening night gala, considered a plum stop on the Oscar season trail.

I considered the pre-release of Yona of the Dawn, but I was disappointed by the last pre-release I got, so I think the Art of Pokemon Adventures would interest me more, just so I can get the convention bag.

Wizardry is a lot more influential in what we'd consider to be traditional RPGs — all of the major JRPG series were directly influenced by it, and there are still games being released which follow the conventions Wizardry laid down.

In 1974, in reference to a New York gallery show by Judy Rifka, Jeremy Gilbert - Rolfe wrote that the artist addressed «the question most crucial to painting in general at the present time: the question as to how far the — currently compromised — abstract «depth» of pictorial space can be newly considered — retrieved — through attention to the material basis of the conventions on which that experience of «depth» relies.»

The exhibition currently on view at Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York (CCNY), titled «Deep Shade,» is the result of what happens when you take images made for fast consumption (think speeding by a roadside billboard or flipping through instagram) and remake them within the conventions of more considered viewing.

By reversing hierarchies of foreground and background and making incongruous compositional choices, both artists upend pictorial conventions and invite viewers to consider painting's inherent falsity while acknowledging its potential as a catalyst for communication and ideation.

Although there have been various proposals considered by states attempting to control the agenda, rules, and participants of any convention, there is nothing in the Constitution that limits what delegates can do once a convention has been called.

This policy document outlines the key issues related to the Clean Development Mechanism considered by the fourth Conference of the Parties (COP4) to the Climate Change Convention to the Kyoto Protocol in Buenos Aires in 1998.

The program's next challenge is to help push national leaders around the world to consider transportation when putting together Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), the low - carbon, sustainable development plans written by developing nations to receive funding under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

As a reminder, in the Court's reading, the first limb only deals with the possibility for persons to institute proceedings when addressed personally by an act; the second limb opens this possibility for persons when an act is of «direct and individual concern to them», an interpretation considered by the Committee as «too severe» to comply with the Convention (para 66).

As this was outside the usual six - month period within which, by convention, the government responds to Law Commission reports we might have expected a thorough and considered response and some firm proposals for implementation.

Another useful foundation for a contract - oriented LRW problem is the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods («CISG»).130 The United States is a signatory to the CISG which is intended to provide a structure for international contract similar to that offered by the Commercial Code and UCC case law is relevant to interpretation of CISG cases.131 Foreign case law is also considered instructive though not binding, 132 allowing an LRW problem to easily incorporate an international convention, foreign law, and domestic law in one fact scConvention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods («CISG»).130 The United States is a signatory to the CISG which is intended to provide a structure for international contract similar to that offered by the Commercial Code and UCC case law is relevant to interpretation of CISG cases.131 Foreign case law is also considered instructive though not binding, 132 allowing an LRW problem to easily incorporate an international convention, foreign law, and domestic law in one fact scconvention, foreign law, and domestic law in one fact scenario.133

[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.

Its future may well be decided by the German courts currently considering the constitutionality of the Convention establishing it.

The European Commission is considering whether or not to progress the enactment of a new Directive on access to environmental justice which would reinforce the Aarhus Convention of October 2001, which, though ratified by the UK and other European states, does not in itself have the force of law internally within those states.

Thus, in keeping with the principle according to which the Convention only defines minimum standards which Contracting Parties are free to raise in their domestic legal system (Art. 53 of the Convention), such an opinion would be given without prejudice for EU law to go beyond the Convention protection level, a scenario explicitly considered by Art. 52 § 3, second sentence, of the Charter.

A further reservation of made by France under article I (3), and which limited application of the Convention to differences that could be considered under French law to be commercial in nature, was withdrawn in November 1989.

Thus, the 1963 Council of Europe Convention on the Reduction of Cases of Multiple Nationality and Military Obligations in Cases of Multiple Nationality (which has not been signed by the Republic of Lithuania) provides: the Member States of the Council of Europe, signatory hereto, considering that cases of multiple nationality are liable to cause difficulties and that joint action to reduce as far as possible the number of cases of multiple nationality, as between member States, corresponds to the aims of the Council of Europe (Preamble); nationals of the Contracting Parties who are of full age and who acquire of their own free will, by means of naturalisation, option or recovery, the nationality of another Party shall lose their former nationality and they shall not be authorised to retain their former nationality (Article 1).

«given... the principle that fundamental rights protected by international human rights treaties should indeed belong to individuals living in the territory of the State party concerned, notwithstanding its subsequent dissolution or succession... the Court considers that both the Convention and Protocol No. 1 should be deemed as having continuously been in force in respect of Montenegro as of [the date it entered into force in respect of Serbia and Montenegro through to the date of Montenegrin independence] as well as thereafter.»

While the courts should be guided by any clear and constant line of Strasbourg jurisprudence (see Pinnock at 48), this does not prevent a court from considering Convention compliance for itself as and when such defences are raised.

It was argued that the Court, as a public authority, was bound by s6 HRA 1998 to consider whether it was a proportionate interference with her Convention rights to make the order.

The book's substantive sections close by considering situations in which a habitual residence is not a signatory to the Convention or mere international travel may turn into international child abduction.

As regards KRG's contention that there was only one permissible way in which it could be served, namely in accordance with the Riyadh Convention, to which both the UAE and Iraq are party — the judge considered the key issue to be whether or not it is legitimate to order service by alternative means (or to dispense with service altogether as was suggested at the hearing) in the face of the provisions of the Riyadh Convention.

In Lithgow, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) even considered that Member States can fulfil their obligation to grant access to justice under Article 6 (1) of the European Convention by consenting to arbitration (para. 201).

In Tariq v Home Office the Court considered the permissibility and compatibility with European Union law and the European Convention of a closed material procedure authorised by certain statutory provisions.

We shall also keep in mind the New York Convention (which has been adopted by more than half of all African states) and consider the general ease or difficulty found with enforcing arbitral awards on the African continent.

Heard by all 11 Justices of the Supreme Court, it considered prerogative powers, Parliamentary sovereignty, the status of EU law, the devolution legislation and the role of constitutional conventions (instructed by the Government Legal Department)

Likewise the (non) possibility for individuals to challenge regulations before the CJEU, the right of action (and rule of law) principle can not circumvene the Treaties: the issue is that the CJEU stated that judicial review on CFPS is a matter «within» the sphere of EU Treaties, so that MS (and EU Institutions) can not take action which may impact on them by using «outside» procedures; the rationale is the same used in other cases: if the matter is covered by EU law, absence of a specific rule in EU law does not enable MS (or the Institutions) to act: in the Advice on the Lugano Convention on Jurisdiction, the mere indirect effect of the Convention of the 44/2001 Regulation was considered sufficient to make the matter fall «wholly» within EU competence, thus depriving the MS of the power to act.