Sentences with phrase «observer state of»

It is also a non-member observer state of the UN.

The pUN General Assembly (May 2 — 3, 2015) was an experimental gathering of volunteer citizen - delegates from as many of the 195 member and observer states of the United Nations as possible.

pUN consists of both an exhibition and a performance in the form of a two - day gathering of delegates — everyday citizens connected by birth or family ties to the 195 member and observer states of the United Nations who volunteer their time as participants and come together to experiment with peaceful problem - solving.

Not exact matches

The sprouting of these islands of legality, observers predict, will spur other states to open up their cannabis markets lest they lose out on revenue and tourism, much as the casino gambling pioneered in Las Vegas became ubiquitous across the continent.

Saudi Arabia, in the midst of transforming its economy and poised for a public offering of its state - owned oil company, could be vulnerable to Federal Reserve policy, observers say.

Another industry observer stated this view more emphatically: «What Dymon is doing flies in the face of conventional storage economics!»

Close observers of North American politics will hear an echo of the president of the United States in O'Leary's GDP targeting.

This is materially different from actually reducing the amount of stimulus which, in the case of the United States, is still expected by most observers to begin in the second half of 2015.

In the United States, where many observers had been expecting some slowing, growth remained strong in the first half of 2000, while growth in the other major regions has been decidedly firmer.

Serious observers in the EU knew this «free rider» situation was not sustainable, despite numerous meetings of EURO finance ministers and Heads of state committing to reforms that were never fulfilled.

Without said observer, they at best exist in an undetermined state of probability waves.

In Latin America, the Holy See maintains observer status in the Organization for American States; a gesture that highlights the historical importance of Catholic institutions in the region.

Many observers believe that Russia is returning to ancient Byzantine notions of a symphonia, an approach in which Church and state closely cooperate.

The range of attitudes can be seen in the observers» comments on religion and morality in the United States.

However, it has been discovered that one speed, that of light, comes out the same for all observers, whatever their state of motion.

One way is to say that if you introduce the consciousness of the observer as one of the variables of the world you are still in a regress since it implies that there is an awareness of the consciousness by a further observer who sees his state of consciousness, and so on.

But Wigner goes further than this by saying that the consciousness of the observer plays an essential role in making the quantum state definite.

The belief in the state of Ubiquity (the possiblitily of a being which exists as the observer at any point in any space to be had) has been with us since likely the dawn of man.

Here, then, we have the familiar Madison — nationalist, centralizer, wary observer of the states.

It is possible that a hurricane of change awaits both church and state in the next half - century, for observers who are cynical about the institutional church often fail to take note of the equal cynicism about the state in communist countries.

Observers say that kind of hard - nosed back and forth with the government, should it happen at all, would instead be more likely to fall on the shoulders of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state.

These difficulties facing the classical atomic theory are well known: secondary qualities remain inexplicable; no meaning can be given to the notion of an external world outside of the sense organs of the observer; organic time must be reversible — which it is not; we can never choose among hypotheses, since all of our mental states follow «from necessity,» so we don't have theories, but can only report autobiographies, and so on.

International religious freedom observers mostly praised Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's opposition to anti-defamation policies because such restrictions would limit free speech.

Most observers recognized that Haley was referring to Donald Trump, and it was noteworthy that the most notable section of her response to Obama's state of the....

The links, which state that the women were observers from a distance at both the crucifixion and the burial, appear to be editorial additions made by a literary editor, rather than part of an original narrative from oral tradition.

In other words, the Greek temple helped the human observer to organize his world in terms of objective forms, rather than in terms of subconscious forces or aspiration for some superhuman state.

The mere fact that the universe is composed of energy and that our minds are made of that same energy brings about the premise that when we as an observer experience reality we are really just energy at a certain evolutionary state experiencing different states of energy.

Gathered on a mountain in Washington State, she and a group of observers wait for the moment.

The United States Catholic Conference publicly released her «apology» before the confirmation hearings, thus, as one political observer put it, «clearing the air» of the charge of anti-Catholicism.

Globally, the state of religious freedom has worsened enough that the commission worries about observers becoming «numb to violations of the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.»

«[The] stated purpose of displaying The Cross at Ground Zero to tell the story of how some people used faith to cope with the tragedy is genuine, and an objective observer would understand the purpose of the display to be secular.»

Judge Reena Raggi said: «The stated purpose of displaying The Cross at Ground Zero to tell the story of how some people used faith to cope with the tragedy is genuine and an objective observer would understand the purpose of the display to be secular.

Today an observer of the Western Catholic Church would note that it is perhaps best known for its campaigning for the state to take money through taxation from one group of people and distribute it through large bureaucracies to other groups of people — an act which is very far from the love, concern, compassion and sacrifice that are the hallmarks of charity.

The observer's feeling - state should accord with the meaning of the thing.

Though many observers felt as the American journalist John Robbins did in 1959, when he asserted that «Hong Kong's state of supersaturation» may be «a portent of things to come throughout Asia,» the apocalypse they predicted never came to pass.

It appears from defendant's own statement, that the McIlhenny bottle and carton were used as a guide in the manufacture of his own, and the inference must follow that his intention then was to make it appear to the casual observer that his sauce and that of plaintiff were one and the same, and thus secure the advantage of the extensive advertisement and wide demand for plaintiff's product, which the stipulation shows is sold in every State of the Union and many foreign countries and is handled by a large maj ority of the jobbers in the United States.

A much earlier observer, Edward Long noted in his 1774 book, The History of Jamaica (London: T. Lowndes), «These [bird] peppers are used liberally in the West - Indies, gathered fresh from the bush, generally before they are ripe; though the bird - pepper has the best flavour in its mature state.

An entirely unprecedented loss, for the observer who had not watched Florida State lose to Clemson or Wake Forest last year on the road, or to N.C. State in 2010, or at Boston College in 2009, or at Georgia Tech in 2008, or any of their other blindside road defeats preventing FSU from attaining maximum «backness.»

Most observers wrote the Bulldogs» ticket to the regional final in August, and a CIF rule change in the selection of the Open Division participants in the state bowls presents Folsom with a path to Carson that does not include a third straight showdown with De La Salle - Concord.

This resolution calls for the upgrading of the Palestinian UN status from observer to non-member observer state.

Article5 (3) states as follows:» The court may entitle relevant Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) with observer status before the commission, and individuals to institute cases directly before it, in accordance with article34 (6) of this protocol.

The tariffs were supposed to assist the steel industry, but many observers believed the move was designed to curry favour with voters in the steel - manufacturing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.

As Democrats in the state Senate declare victory in the 8th district on Long Island with candidate John Brooks over incumbent GOP Sen. Michael Venditto, one observer pointed this week to the dangers of prematurely celebrating a narrow win.

The notion that in this climate the state Legislature would be willing to roll back more than 20 years of precedent strikes some observers as not only absurd, but nakedly naive.

In that sense, the threat of expulsion is not only unlikely but also unnecessary (although some observers of democratic backsliding in some of the newer member states are likely to disagree with me on this point).

In particular, I think the attack on the Arab League peace initiative is bizarre and hopeless; I take the references to the «whole of Palestine» to again signal the refusal to recognise any status of the state of Israel; the concern to stress the illegitimacy of the Palestinan authority too suggests it is not simply Hamas but pro-traditionalist Hamas (when many observers believe there is an opportunity, with Hamas engaged in electoral politics, for it to drop the death to Israel position of its founding charter).

Gerald Benjamin, a professor of political science at SUNY New Paltz and longtime Albany observer, said that issues like heroin abuse may be a driving force for some families and pockets of voters throughout the state, but it will be secondary to how the presidential election will affect down - ballot candidates.

Observers are now speculating on the future of the state's newest industry.

International observers must therefore watch closely the security forces of the Kenyan state because if any such strategy by the Jubilee Alliance materialised, it would be carried out in the same way in which extra-judicial killings by police have been normalised in the pursuing the Mungiki over the past five years.

There was a time when drinking in one's office at the state Capitol complex was commonplace, though any veteran observer would tell you that the old hard - partying days of Albany are long in the past.