Book Shelf

VII. The continental shelf

Definition of the continental shelf

He placed the book on the shelf.

The bottle is on the upper shelf.

To the south lies the European continental shelf and the North Sea, to the east is the Eurasian continental shelf with the Barents Sea.

The plans are already on the table, or at least on the shelf, waiting for the G 8 funding to arrive.

The continental shelf and the work of the Commission

My father made a shelf for me.

(a) Charts at an appropriate scale and coordinates indicating the outer limits of the continental shelf and the relevant territorial sea baselines

Christmas day it was out on the shelf edge.

Its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, which is currently under examination by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, is estimated to be 953,525 square kilometres.

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf, concluded at Rome on 10 March 1988

If at all possible, we really would like to use smart biomaterials that we can just take off the shelf and regenerate your organs.

Indeed, without implementation, the recommendations will only gather dust on the shelf.

Last year, Australia lodged with the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf its submission on the outer limit of the shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline.

At its end, the participants demonstrated a general understanding of the process and procedures involved in the delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf.

Article 2 of the Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf states that the coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources .

This story starts I was at a friend's house, and she had on her shelf a copy of the DSM manual, which is the manual of mental disorders.

Information reported by the Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

We note the important work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

In other words, I ve taken off the shelf components, and I ve made a spectroscope.

Most of Ross Ice Shelf is in the Ross Dependency claimed by New Zealand.

It also bought a large majority of BP's Gulf of Mexico Shelf properties.

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf, done at Rome on March 10, 1988 (Joined on February 28, 2005).

If that happens, withdrawal plans will be returned to the shelf probably for many years.

(i) Mr. Peter F. Croker, Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

The contingency plan remained on the shelf because of the lack of casualties among Israeli civilians.

We note with satisfaction the progress made by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

Some of these rascals are indeed, to put it gently, past their shelf life.

From my perspective, today s off the shelf computer programs come awfully close to meeting Turing s test.

Each cheese and the shelf underneath it is then cleaned manually or robotically every seven days.

However, there are no fixed platforms operating in the Exclusive Economic Zone Continental shelf of Mauritius.

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf

The ice drilling project on the north eastern corner of the Amery ice shelf near Davis Station continued.

Modus operandi for the consideration of a submission made to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

Kuwait is also party to the Protocol concerning Marine Pollution Resulting from Exploration and Exploitation of the Continental Shelf.

We are pleased to note the progress in the work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

I'm actually wearing the device right now and we've sort of cobbled it together with components that are off the shelf and that, by the way, only cost 350 dollars at this point in time.

Mexico underlines the valuable work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, and we express our concern at the logistic implications that the Commission's significantly increased workload will have in the foreseeable future.

And Orion is really one of the only, if not the only, off the shelf technologies that could do something.

The islands are located in the South Atlantic Ocean, on the Patagonian Shelf, about east of Patagonia in southern Argentina.

Reference was made to the Truman Proclamation in one case considered by the Court, the North Sea Continental Shelf case.

Voters will learn to compromise, replacing tailor made niche parties with a couple of solid off the shelf options.

And donor blood must be kept in cold storage, where it has a 28 day shelf life.