Iran s political elite sees the United States, rather than Europe, as their appropriate international counterpart.

Efforts made by Africa to stand as a solid counterpart to its development partners were emphasized.

The Governor acts as Chairman.

The board would constitute the fiscal counterpart of the European Central Bank it would also be the European counterpart of the International Monetary Fund.

(b) That the qualification of acts of torture by law enforcement personnel merely as arbitrary acts results in those acts being treated as less serious criminal offences

UNIDO administers the remainder of the budget in consultation with the centres to recruit counterpart institution staff as well as other international experts.

There, Bond joins forces with his CIA counterpart, Felix Leiter.

The study of unilateral acts should take account of the different forms such acts could take, as well as other forms of unilateral acts that States might reform in the future.

An effort has been made to cultivate the League of Arab States as a counterpart institution, but results have been mixed.

As time went on, I came to love the incredible precision of the formal language, and the inventive flexibility its colloquial counterpart.

There were frequent references to her equally transformational American counterpart, Ronald Reagan.

This encompasses persons who commit terrorist acts, or finance terrorism, as well as those who instigate or otherwise participate in the commission of such acts.

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In Spain, the counterpart to the current account deficit was private sector borrowing.

The Council acts as the focal point for the conventions.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hugs counterpart Ilham Aliyev at a meeting this year.

He anthropomorphises the animals, and alludes each one to a counterpart in Russian history.

Acts of violence, such as beating or recurrent beating, are qualified as physical abuse.

Accordingly, his report would cover acts committed by foreigners as well as by Afghans.

review their national laws and establish criminal offences for terrorist acts as defined in its article 1, and to make such acts punishable

Presumably, the eurobonds would be under the control of the eurozone finance ministers. The board would constitute the fiscal counterpart of the European Central Bank it would also be the European counterpart of the International Monetary Fund.

Perhaps the biggest challenge is to find a regional institution that can serve, not so much as a counterpart, but as a sounding board and mechanism for validation of UNDP regional efforts.

When Europeans play and relax, they produce a counterpart of their financial and economic struggles.

The recipient, moreover, had to put up matching ( counterpart ) funds for each and every project.

China and South Korea both cancelled meetings of their foreign ministers with their Japanese counterpart.

The rural population of Pakistan does not at present have the same facilities and amenities in the fields of education, health, employment etc. as its urban counterpart.

That will hold true as long as cheap energy from Russia acts as a de facto economic subsidy.

Inadequate rent capture decreases government revenues and acts as a disguised subsidy.

The criteria of validity of unilateral acts was also mentioned as an issue that should be taken into account in the analysis of these acts.

And, in 1972, this nation began to establish a counterpart in the sea, National Marine Sanctuaries.

This arrangement is unthinkable without an extremely robust counterpart for example, prior scrutiny of national budgets.

However, every women's NGO had a fundamentalist counterpart, which meant that progress was slow and difficult.

Just as Smith s minimal capitalism was transformed into Keynes mixed economy, we need to contemplate a transition from the national version of the mixed economy to its global counterpart.

This agency acts as a one stop shop and as the focal point for investment promotion activities.

Pollution acts as a catalyst, increasing the rates of these diseases above normal.

This motor drives the motion of the filament, which acts as a propeller.

Military operations that are not prohibited shall not be treated as terrorist acts.

Usually the main female owner herself acts as the manager of the business.

The Section also acts as the Secretariat to the Results Based Management Board.

Include Acts of nature, acts of war, accidents, malicious acts originating from inside or outside the organization.

These colors, although they are on the border of the gamut, have no counterpart in monochromatic light.

Acts of vandalism and looting were also registered, prompting the government to impose a night curfew as of 22 January. Protesters, however, have distanced themselves from these acts.

The Armed Forces Act 2006 replaces the three separate service discipline acts and earlier Armed Forces Acts as the system of law under which the Armed Forces operate.

So I put a small camera over there, that acts as a digital eye.

The periderm replaces the epidermis, and acts as a protective covering like the epidermis.