Sentences with phrase «control over the territory»

President Trump's personal lawyer and a former business associate met privately in New York City last month with a member of the Ukrainian parliament to discuss a peace plan for that country that could give Russia long - term control over territory it seized in 2014 and lead to the lifting of sanctions against Moscow.

We will find it hard to explain the unexpected turn of Russian diplomacy in the Transnistrian conflict resolution process if we still perceive Russia as a typical 19th century Great Power, striving to maintain its special status in international relations by establishing physical control over territories in the post-Soviet space.

The artist in both eras is the quintessential Libertarian Romantic, seeking to banish control over territories on and offline.

Canadian experience in wilderness protection provides an example of forest conservation polices and laws that have generally been hostile to, and systematically biased against, Indigenous peoples because they have denied Indigenous peoples control over their territories and access to life - saving forest resources.

In a judgment of significance, with political repercussions, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights on 16 June 2015 decided in Chiragov v Armenia that Armenia exercised effective control over the territory of Nagorno - Karabakh and the surrounding areas (captured during the 1992 conflict with Azerbaijan) and that Armenia thus bore responsibility under -LSB-...]

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Over 95 per cent of Canada's infrastructure is controlled by the provinces, territories and municipalities, for which the federal government already allocates significant amounts of funding through its New Building Canada Plan; a $ 53 billion plan spread over ten yeOver 95 per cent of Canada's infrastructure is controlled by the provinces, territories and municipalities, for which the federal government already allocates significant amounts of funding through its New Building Canada Plan; a $ 53 billion plan spread over ten yeover ten years.

But it is less a physical territory than a proving ground for an idea — that easing of controls over the renminbi and liberalization of interest rates can be introduced in a discrete area, evaluated and then rolled out to other parts of the country.

Macau's gaming regulator met with representatives of U.S. mogul Steve Wynn in the Chinese - controlled territory over allegations that he subjected women who worked for him to unwanted sexual advances, Reuters reported on Jan. 30.

Crusaders through the centuries repeatedly found out the difference between subduing a territory through military force and controlling it over the long haul.

That fact, plus the possibility of striking out for new territory when things got tight, and a religious attitude which emphasized the individual self in relationship with God, made it pretty hard for a father to maintain control over his children.

A crucial battle over a small area - Agincourt, Poitiers, Crecy - can ultimately determine the control of an entire territory: Normandy, Anjou, Aquitaine.

By the mid-eighth century, the mixed Persian - Arab Abbasids reasserted Persian control over the empire, and cultural tolerance was again extended to conquered territories.

It stopped fighting for physical control over specific territories, but instead engaged in the fight for people's minds.

A lot of liberals and other Palestine supporters make the following argument about Israel's control of the West Bank: Currently, the Palestinian people living in the Israeli - controlled territory in the West Bank do not have any say over the government that rules them.

The very people who are worried about national sovereignty say nothing about American bases and the sovereign control that the Americans have over these bases in our territory, on our soil, but they talk all the time about the loss of sovereignty.

More generally, Pakistan's government has less control over even the territory that it has more control over formally, than Israel does over the area it has more control over formally.

«These blatantly lopsided appointments, all of which were made since the inception of the Buhari Administration, portray the NPF as an army of occupation deliberately designed to carry into effect President Buhari's Northernisation Aganda in furtherance of the dream of the Sardauna to reduce the South to a conquered territory and thereby prevented from having control over its future.

Tropical birds have the luxury of permanent homes and longer lives and raising fewer offspring, but they pay for it by having to defend permanent territories, and their bright feathers may help them assert control over their home turf.

Unlike pumpkin seeds though, which are safe if carefully controlled, sunflower seeds are just dodgy enough to plummet over the cliff edge into acne - causing territory.

Sometimes those sites who cover the whole US territory don't have proper control over the user account and thus you can meet lots of fakes and frauds.

It is also possibly the most successful in history, controlling more people and more territory, and for longer periods, and exercising a tighter grip over its subjects than any other comparable government in the last two millennia.

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If an elderly dog leaks urine all over his owner's sofa due to lack of bladder control, it's not the same as another dog urinating indoors to claim his territory, for example.

The truck headed east across the desert over the Somali border and deep into territory controlled by al - Shabab, the violent extremist group, on its way to Mogadishu.

-- If they've declared independence and are often regarded as having control over a permanently populated territory

Join one of the many bandit clans or create your own and recruit others to fight for control over contested territories.

, where players will find two teams of four players duking it out over territory control.

Published by Google, Ingress is an augmented reality territory control game in which two teams battle over real - world control points using a modified version of Google Maps.

Fight over key territory to take complete control and prove your gang is the most fearsome on Necromunda!

A British artist explores the manipulation of cartography and geography by superpowers to gain control over new territories, resources and trade routes

Gordon Cheung's first solo exhibition in Dubai, «Lines in the Sand», presents a series of large scale multimedia works that explore the shifting boundaries of the empires of global capitalism, and the manipulation of cartography and geography by superpowers to gain control over new territories, resources and trade routes.

In many of their territories, Afro - Colombians have found themselves literally in the line of fire between government forces and armed actors operating outside the law who are in dispute over territory, agricultural and mineral profits and control of illicit crops.

CAISO's control center in Folsom, Calif., watches over a far - flung service territory from the Mexican border to the Pacific Northwest.

Article 1 of Additional Protocol II of 1977 to the Geneva Convention applies to «armed conflicts -LSB-...] which take place in the territory of a High Contracting Party between its armed forces and dissident armed forces or other organised armed groups which, under responsible command, exercise such control over a part of its territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations and to implement this Protocol» (para. 1).

In July 2011 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held that the Convention, though generally without extra-territorial effect, could apply where a state exercised «authority and control» over territory in another state (Al - Skeini and Others v UK (App No 55721 / 07)-RRB-.

Nation: A country; a body politic; a people united under the same government and laws; a country occupying a certain limited territory, over which it has independent control.

The case concerns a dispute over the control and management of the Territory's French language education system and is the first time in over a decade that the SCC will render a decision on the scope of minority language education rights in English Canada....

While Minister of Education, he created regional boards of education as a response to the huge scale of the Northwest Territories and the desire of residents of its various regions to have more control over their communities.

The ECtHR said that if an invading state could be considered to have exercised, temporarily, effective control of over a part of the territory of the invaded state, and if it could be shown that at the material time victims were inside that geographic are, it would follow that they were within the jurisdiction of the invading state and not that of the invaded non-contracting state.

This means that from that date, AP II (which applies to non-international armed conflicts) will apply to the conflict in Afghanistan (i) in so far the conflict takes place between the forces of the government of Afghanistan and insurgents; and (2) in so far as the Taleban and other insurgents «exercise such control over a part of [Afghanistan's] territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations and to implement this Protocol.»

By 1911, every mainland State and Territory had introduced protection policies that subjected Indigenous people to near - total control and denied them basic human rights such as freedom of movement and labour, custody of their children, and control over their personal property.

The court ruled Traditional Owners have a right to control access by recreational and commercial fishers in the inter-tidal zone over Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory.

The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,

It is also inconsistent with the consistently expressed desires of Indigenous people in the Northern Territory for greater community control over educational processes.

custodianship over traditional territories (to own, control and manage our ancestral lands and territories, waters and other resources)

Such a lease will override traditional owner rights; it is the intention behind the Act to do so.94 The maintenance of Aboriginal control over such activities reflects the inherent inalienability and proprietary rights of Aboriginal freehold in the Northern Territory.

One universally recognised right is the right of Indigenous peoples to the ownership and control of their lands, territories and natural resources, and to give - or not give - their free, prior and informed consent over developments on their land.

Just as a right of international law to innocent passage does not undermine the sovereignty of the coastal state over the territorial sea (66)(nor its right to regulate the exercise of innocent passage in respect of a number of matters), (67) nor should the right of innocent passage prejudice Indigenous claims in the respect of the use, management and control of their sea territories and resources.

control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs.

The Declaration asserts that having control over developments that affect our lands, territories and resources will enable Indigenous peoples to maintain and strengthen our institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote our development in accordance with our aspirations and needs.