Sentences with phrase «for international armed»

In particular, as such mechanisms were designed for international armed conflicts and are dependent on States» consent for their activation, they have barely functioned as envisaged.

Not exact matches

Diplomats and intelligence experts, however, have refuted the idea that these documents prove anything beyond what they already knew when the deal was signed — that Iran certainly did pursue nuclear arms development, which then led to stringent international sanctions and ultimately the negotiation for a deal.

The Trump administration has also yet to fill other positions critical to any talks with North Korea, including a permanent undersecretary for arms control and international security affairs, as well as a permanent assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

The fund used to handle marketing for all Yum brands in Canada, but turned over the duties last year as costs mounted and Yum strengthened its international marketing arm.

«They wouldn't commit, and it was a sticking point,» said Max Bergmann, a former special assistant to the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security at the time those negotiations occurred.

PARIS, April 17 - French healthcare group Sanofi is in exclusive talks to sell its Zentiva European generics drugs arm to private equity firm Advent International for 1.9 billion euros, the companies said on Tuesday.

Glickman, 27 at the time, quickly zeroed in on phone costs: like almost all countries other than the United States, Argentina had a state - run phone company that charged an arm and a leg for international calls, and Amex Argentina was running up a monthly bill of $ 25,000 in international calls.

Suddeutsche Zeitung subsequently partnered with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which in turn is an arm of the U.S. - based nonprofit Center for Public Integrity.

The International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland, appears to be acting as a go - between for Bergdahl and his family, part of its mission is to protect victims of armed conflict and other violent situations and provide them with assistance.

However, critics point out that the program is very expensive (largely paid for by the public), that the technologies are risky, that the threat rationale isn't very strong and that this will affect international relations, and could lead to an arms race.

Responsible for saving and rehabilitating thousands of animals each year, The HSUS and its global arm Humane Society International travel across the country and the globe to help animals in need from puppy mills, dogfighting, neglect and natural disasters.

The Act also follows the advice of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the World Health Organization.

Eight Roads Ventures, the proprietary investment arm of Fidelity International Limited, announced the launch of its dedicated technology fund for China.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Armed men abducted a German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday evening from a compound in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the aid group said Thursday.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

The Noonday Collection — provides jobs for impoverished women and raises money for international adoptions (Love the arm warmers and scarves)

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.

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.

Their past work spans a wide range of creatively «engineered» campaigns, including a project for Amnesty International that was named Buzzfeed's No. 2 Most Effective ad campaign and helped influence the White House — and subsequently, encouraged the U.N. to pass a global Arms Trade Treaty on April 3, 2013.

In recognition of our potential to create a world of difference for all animals, in 2014 we established a global arm - Animals International.

The second international break of the season is upon us and Arsenal fans should be very happy about that, although it would not have been nearly as nice if Burnley had been able to hold out against our weary looking attack for another minute, or if the referee had spotted the ball hitting Koscielny's arm before going over the line to give Arsenal the points yesterday.

He's a German international so clearly can play but virtually every game for Arsenal he has at least three brain farts where he watches players run circles around him and then flaps his arms when something bad happens..

While this news will be welcomed with open arms by just about every Arsenal fan on the planet, it might not go down too well with the family and friends of a certain Mister Kieran Gibbs, because the England international is having a hell of a job getting a game for the Arsenal first team ahead of his Spanish team mate Nacho Monreal.

UK arms export rules are clear that licences for military equipment should not be granted if there is a «clear risk» that they «might» be used in violation of international humanitarian law.

Dapo Akande is University Lecturer in Public International Law and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC).

Dr Nicola Horsburgh is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict and Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford.

At the University of Oxford Alumni Weekend, 17 September 2011, Dr Hugo Slim and Professor Jennifer Welsh, from the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), discussed the concept of the «Responsibility to Protect» or R2P in contemporary international relations, and its role in key cases such as Libya and post-election violence in Kenya.

Dapo Akande is Co-Director, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), University Lecturer in Public International Law and Yamani Fellow, St Peter's College Oxford.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

Stakeholders in Birnin - Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna state under the aegis of Birnin - Gwari Vanguards for Security and Good Governance have petitioned the Amnesty International (AI) over recent cases of armed banditry, kidnappings and cattle rustlings.

«Is it not correct to suggest that your administration acted on the basis that it was essentially unrestrained by international or Nigerian law in engaging in or encouraging the apparent diversion and sharing of the over $ 2 billion meant to purchase arms for Nigerian soldiers in order to protect them against attacks from Boko Haram and to enhance their ability to defend the territorial integrity of the country and provide security for its citizens?»

He became a pop - culture as well as a legal star during his nearly eight years in office — not just by convicting Wall Street fraudsters, international arms dealers, and two of New York state's top - three politicians, but by doing it with a flair for the headline - stoking phrase.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

Amnesty International, six Nobel Peace Prize laureates and over 90 celebrities have called for an immediate arms embargo on the country.

Although they think the armed forces are the UK's best asset in foreign policy, they are less supportive than Lib Dems of military action for humanitarian purposes (by 9 %), or to serve the broader interests of the international community (by 16 %).

Empire State Development, the state's economic development arm, bought the Hotel Niagara in 2016 from JSK International Corp. for $ 4.4 million after previous attempts at restoring the hotel failed for lack of funding.

«It is on record that APC wrote to the United States of America not to sell arms to Nigeria, reported the country to the European Union, United Nations and went to the bizarre extent of reporting the then Chief of Army Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika, to the International Criminal Court (ICC), not for committing the kind of genocide committed against the Shiite Muslims in Zaria and Agatus in Benue, but for killing Boko Haram insurgents.

He said: «As well as her own extensive and wide - ranging consultations with senior figures from the armed forces, the defence industry, the unions, academic experts and others, Emily is hosting a series of round table events for MPs to inform the defence review, focusing on issues such as intelligence, international relations, cyber-security, terrorism, and the role of special forces, as well as the future of the nuclear deterrent.

Keynote Address: Rose Gottemoeller, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, U.S. Department of State

Fellows are assigned to one of the three bureaus under the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International SecurityÑArms Control, Verification, and Compliance (AVC) Bureau, the International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN) Bureau, or the Political - Military Affairs (PM) Bureau.

In the international Phase 2 clinical trial, two study arms enrolled 24 cirrhotic patients each, none who had previously been treated for HCV infection.

«It's a positive step forward in many respects,» says David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington, D.C. - based arms control organization.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC), which governs the Paralympic Games, regulates prosthetic length for double - leg amputees based on a number of factors including wingspan (from the tips of one's fingers on one hand to those on the other hand while the arms are held perpendicular to the body) and height.

For example, the robotic arm on the International Space Station is operated by controlling the angles of its joints.

13 May 2014 Annual AAAS - Hitachi Lecture on Science and Society Focus: New Technologies on the Arms Control Front Featuring: Rose Gottemoeller, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, U.S. Department of State

International researchers prospectively analyzed and compared tumor and matched plasma DNA for EGFR mutations from 1060 patients that were screened as part of a phase IV, open - label, single - arm, first - line gefitinib in EGFR mutation positive Caucasian patients.

Sky watchers are already up in arms over poorly aimed lighting (see, for example the International Dark - Sky Association, www.darksky.org), and glowing trees as shown in the

The drought - affected people of East Africa did not receive international or domestic aid for six months, partly due to the risks posed by armed groups.

This solicitation also will include a membership call for an ARM Investigation Team, which will be a multidisciplinary group of U.S. industry, academia, government, and international members.