Secondly, an expansion involving six new permanent seats would constitute a formidable impediment to the effective functioning of the Security Council.

(c) It may be an impediment to electronic commerce.

There is an emerging consensus that high levels of crime constitute a major impediment to sustainable development, undercutting in particular prospects of achieving stable and economically viable societies that would bring benefits to all citizens.

Where she was born should not be an impediment to her prospects.

The non extradition of nationals remains an important legal impediment to extradition.

Considering that the proliferation, illicit circulation of and traffic in small arms constitute an impediment to development, and a threat to populations and to national and regional security and are a factor contributing to the destabilization of States,

However, that was an internal issue for the EU and should not constitute an impediment to the inclusion of draft article 16 bis, which seemed to be generally welcomed by the Commission as a means of facilitating the broadest possible ratification of the draft convention.

Russia argued that America s insistence on Assad s immediate departure was an impediment to peace.

Environmental degradation in Asia not only harms its population s health, but will become an impediment to growth.

Failed states, it was now acknowledged, were no less an impediment to development than were overbearing states.

In some areas, the lack of security is still an impediment to effective humanitarian assistance and project implementation.

Such a preliminary order does not constitute an award.

And remove the impediment from my speech ,

The biggest impediment to such an education are the mass media, with its tendency to cultivate superficiality and amusement.

Virus protection and virus development constitute an uneven arms race.

Another impediment is the dominance of large banks.

The resolution could constitute an important building block in UNIDO's decentralization.

The fund raising efforts of the Institute constitute an ongoing activity.

Supporters of such research are framing criticism of it as opposition to saving children s lives and an impediment to scientific development.

While it would definitely constitute an interference with the human right to physical integrity, as a proportional measure it would not constitute CIDT.

Unemployment problems constitute an important factor underlying political tensions and ethnic violence.

If committed during an armed conflict, such acts may constitute war crimes.

They constitute an affront to the poor, who thereby become further impoverished.

As such, they constitute nothing less than an attack on world order.

The world should be thankful that there is at least one. Where she was born should not be an impediment to her prospects.

Unilateral sanctions, imposed outside the United Nations, were a violation of the sovereignty of developing countries and an impediment to their sustainable development.

(b) does not constitute an abuse of the right to submit such communications,

International exchanges of knowledge and experience constitute an essential element of the project.

They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

The procedure for indirect access should not be so burdensome and time consuming as to act as an impediment to access to bank information.

One particular impediment is high seas governance, or the lack thereof.

One frequent practical impediment to international trade relates to the multiplicity

(b) Does not constitute an abuse of the right of submission of such requests

The United States Virgin Islands constitute an organized, unincorporated Territory of the United States.

Lack of or limited enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms constitutes an impediment to the creation of an enabling environment for gender equality and empowerment of women.

That energy shortage in developing countries is a basic impediment to development.

Accordingly, for the present election, 96 votes constitute an absolute majority in the General Assembly.

Far from opposing absolutist power as an impediment to religious democracy, they tried to persuade the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of the value of reform.

And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.

But the security situation in various parts of the country remains difficult and continues to act as an impediment to further progress in reconstruction and development.

Draft paragraph 3 (b) required the determination of sufficient reliability to be made ex post by a court or other trier of fact, which meant that when two parties to a contract entered into a transaction, they had no idea whether that transaction would eventually be upheld, a state of affairs that was counterproductive and could constitute an impediment to electronic commerce.

Article 10 should therefore be interpreted not as an impediment to, but as a firm constitutional basis for, adopting such measures and, where appropriate, as imposing an obligation on Turkey to adopt them.

These efforts constitute an important component in the overall effort to improve the regional security climate.

At a time when bank capital is scarce, that impediment carries significant economic costs.

The Special Rapporteur is of the opinion that such a reform would constitute an important institutional advance.