Sentences with phrase «unilateral act»

These filings should therefore be celebrated as reaffirmations of the will toward peace and stability, rather than feared as unilateral acts of aggression.

Although it follows from the objective of the opinion procedure referred to in paragraph 47 above that the agreement concerned — in order to be classified as «envisaged» — must not be concluded before the Court gives the opinion requested, the [fact of unilateral acts by Member States] alone is not such as to render the request redundant.

Similarly, as unilateral acts, PBMs also sit awkwardly with the established preference for multilateral responses to transnational regulatory problems in international trade.

Solidarity is not, properly understood, a merely unilateral act; it should always be reciprocal and call people into relationship.

Bush's alliance with Ariel Sharon was based on using massive force and preemptive strikes against terrorism and preferring unilateral acts with which the powerful side can impose its will without the need to negotiate compromises and concessions.

when the employer's single unilateral act (such a demoting the employee) breached the employment contract in a manner that substantially altered the essential terms of the contract; or

While neither process purports to be the only answer; as one size rarely fits all, the horror show that litigation often is, involves people frequently putting on their «Halloween Masks» to use intimidation, threats, cost, and endless unilateral acts (calculated or otherwise) to gain advantage;... usually at the expense of the family's emotional and financial health.

Naturally suspicious of Hollywood's motives, he wrote to insist that God's action on the soul is the key to the novel, which, he said, «deals with what is theologically termed «the operation of grace,» that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to himself.»

The U.S. decision to launch trade investigations is a unilateral act of protectionism, the Chinese commerce ministry said in a statement on Wednesday, citing a speech by Wang in New Delhi.

Something of extraordinary magnitude has transpired: the ugliness of Itzik's unilateral act of vengeance has been replaced by reciprocated acts of love and caring.

The unilateral act of our party national chairman to submit the name of Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu as the candidate of the party contrary to the decision of the party's Appeal Committee and the National Working Committee is also fresh in our memories.

And she draws on recent releases from the Russian archives to challenge the view that the deaths were a unilateral act by a maverick group of the Ekaterinburg Bolsheviks, identifying a chain of command that stretches directly, she believes, to Moscow — and to Lenin himself.

If an express or an implied term gives the employer the authority to make the change, or if the employee consents to or acquiesces in it, the change is not a unilateral act and therefore will not constitute a breach.

2 The attribution or extinction of parental responsibility by an agreement or a unilateral act, without intervention of a judicial or administrative authority, is governed by the law of the State of the child's habitual residence at the time when the agreement or unilateral act takes effect.