Sentences with phrase «well established conventions»

But again we're back to well established conventions, traditions and assurances.

It's a well established convention in the UK that no Parliament can bind the next.

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Most of the older moderate groups defeated in the long Baptist wars gave up on the Southern Baptist Convention some years ago and established their own groups outside» or, at best, on the margins of» the denomination.

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The Lib Dems would also seek to establish a constitutional convention, but theirs would take input from political parties, academic and civil society groups, as well as the British public, and aim to draw up a full constitution for a federal UK.

The coalition Government do not intend to withdraw from the European convention on human rights, which was imposed by the victorious British on the rest of Europe after the war in order to establish British values across the countries that were recovering from fascism and was drafted largely by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, who put what he thought were the best principles of British justice into it.»

While the right to participate in politics and public life is well established in both international conventions and domestic laws, persons with disabilities are frequently denied their rights or are unable to exercise such rights in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons.»

The tropes of gambling films are well - established, and writing / directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck («Half Nelson») aren't afraid to acknowledge those conventions in their newest and deeply human film, «Mississippi Grind.»

The screenwriters have established a reputation for churning out rom - coms that resonate with contemporary audiences, but do not stray far from the tried - and - true plot formulas and conventions which have earned the sub-genre fans since... well, the early days of narrative filmmaking, to be honest.

It's often hard for a new action game to stand out at trade shows like E3 and Games Convention when it's up against so many established brands, but Dark Void - assembled by a team of veterans from FASA Interactive's Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge - faces strong competition from within as well as without.

While it was not until the 1950s and 1960s that many European filmmakers would deliberately flout Hollywood conventions to establish their own national cinemas free from American influence, there had always been films that existed well outside of the mainstream and Orpheus is one such film.

For all of Tragedy Girl's bloodlust, backtalk, and splatter, it does a shockingly good job of mocking the pretensions of the established elite while jeering at so much of what grates about populist and online conventions.

Superhero satire doesn't always play well on the big screen, but director James Gunn demonstrated his ability to tinker with established genre conventions with «Slither,» and besides — it's Dwight Schrute from «The Office» beating people up with a wrench.

Snowpiercer is a product of a genre that can easily get lost in its conventions, but establishes itself as proof that big idea science fiction remains alive and well.

Wikipedians use two well - established academic conventions to verify facts: citation, and peer review.

Yet this report doesn't make use of well - established research conventions (adequacy or equity studies), or for that matter any sensible approach for determining if a formula is in fact broken.

The classic fan - favorite multiplayer is returning, but there are some notable deviations from established convention revealed as well.

In other respects, Persona stuck close to well - established RPG conventions.

In some respects, games have been getting better at this ever since the genre's conventions were first established in Grand Theft Auto 3 in 2001.

The shotgun is not a bad weapon at short to medium ranges, and is generally nice to have against the regular guards, but ammo is quite difficult to come by for it (it is Nazi Germany, after all) and it doesn't work too well against the zombies, in complete defiance of established zombie game conventions.

It has something to do with the fact that I feel like some sort of barrier has been erected between myself and the artist, as they resort to well established and accepted conventions in order to justify and mediate an activity that is otherwise their most direct means of personal communication.

Extending well - established conventions of collage and the found object, he produced what he called «combines» - hybrids of painting and sculpture in which it seemed anything at all might find a place.

The IPCC has a well established cooperation role, including providing assessment reports, special reports, methodology reports and technical papers to support the Convention process and wider global community.

The signing of the cooperation agreement between the clans was a milestone in an extensive and carefully constructed, highly participative consultation process, that embodied the principle of free prior informed consent, an important standard for respecting indigenous rights established in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples acknowledged in the ILO 169 Convention, as well as a recommended best practice by the international indigenous rights» community.

Yet norms about responsibility for damages from human - induced climate change are well established not only by most ethical theories but also in a variety of international agreements, including the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (UN, 1992b), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN 1992a).

The author is well qualified to contest the established organs for addressing climate change, principally the IPCC and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...

The Luxembourg Court, in adherence to the great shift in thoughts aimed at protecting «the rule of law at the national and international levels», as the United Nations General Assembly urges (see UN GA Resolution A / RES / 67 / 2012), and intended to repress the crime of serious VAT fraud, with established an effective measure (i.e., the disapplication of national rules incompatible with Article 325 (1) TFEU, Article 2 (1) of the 1995 PIF Convention as well as Directive 2006/112 on the EU's common system of VAT, read in conjunction with Article 4 (3) TEU) which, alongside the guilty, condemns States defaulting and disrespecting EU law and the founding principles of the world legal order.

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

Since the ordinary meaning of «persons» included women as well as men, Canada was free to establish a new convention of appointing women to the Senate, notwithstanding that the practice up to that point had been only to appoint men.

The Preamble states that the Hague Convention seeks «to protect children internationally from the harmful effects of their wrongful removal or retention and to establish procedures to ensure their prompt return to the State of their habitual residence, as well as to secure protection for the rights of access.»

The RPD determines whether or not a refugee claimant has established a well - founded fear of persecution for a convention grounds (race, religion, particular social group, nationality, or political opinion) or a risk of cruel and inhuman treatment.

The first meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention (Lucca, Italy 21 - 23 October 2002) decided to establish a Task Force on Access to Justice to support the implementation of the third pillar of the Convention by inter alia, examining good practices, sharing experience with implementation of particular paragraphs of article 9 of the Convention and assessing the impact of certain barriers in access to justice such as costs and delays.

Lord Bingham, states that «the right of a criminal defendant to be confronted by named and identified accusers was well recognised and established in England for some centuries before adoption of the European Convention» and refers to Lord Rodger's words in support for this contention in R (D) v Camberwell Green Youth Court [2005] UKHL 4, [2005] 1 WLR 393, [2005] 1 All ER 999 that «the introduction of Art 6 (3)(d) will not have added anything of significance to any requirements of English law for witnesses to give their evidence in the presence of the accused.»

Equally, breaches of the Convention should be held to exist only when they are clear and not when they can only be established by complex and recondite arguments, at best highly controversial, as much liable to be wrong as right.»

After all, it is well established that prisoners continue to enjoy all of the other fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention except their right to liberty (see Dickson v United Kingdom [2007] 3 FCR 877 at paras 67 — 68).

The approach to determining claims for privacy or misuse of private information is now well - established as a two - stage process, incorporating the jurisprudence of Arts 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention).

Many presenters referenced the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as the reason to hear the voices of children and youth; others referenced children's views as a cornerstone consideration in establishing the course of action in their best interest, while others framed the expression of children's views as an ethical obligation of adults involved in judicial processes, as an aspect of promoting children's wellbeing or as a matter of children's fundamental rights.

On 9 December 2000 the Senate referred to the PJC for inquiry and report; (a) whether the finding of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) that the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 is consistent with Australia's international legal obligations, in particular, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, is sustainable on the weight of informed opinion; (b) what the amendments are required to the Act, and what processes of consultation must be followed in effecting those amendments, to ensure that Australia's international obligations are complied with; and (c) whether dialogue with the CERD on the Act would assist in establishing a better informed basis for amendment to the Act.

Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption Is an international agreement to establish safeguards to ensure that intercountry adoptions take place in the best interests of the child.

8 On 9 December 1999 the Senate referred to the PJC for inquiry and report; (a) whether the finding of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) that the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 is consistent with Australia's international legal obligations, in particular, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, is sustainable on the weight of the informed opinion, (b) what amendments are required to the Act, and what processes of consultation must be followed in effecting those amendments, to ensure that Australia's international obligations are complied with; and (c) whether dialogue with the CERD on the Act would assist in establishing a better informed basis for amendment to the Act.