Alwar Balasubramaniam Art of substance and absence

Does it have the substance to do it?

This is the very essence of international cooperation.

Solzhenitsyn s suggestion is crude, but right in a fundamental sense.

Since all, at first, from the same essence came.

They also agree that a central core has remained constant. But they disagree about what that core is.

We take pride in that the Sudan of the Revolution has become the exemplary essence of this new hope.

The modern doctrine contains two general principles which are different in character but perhaps not in essence.

In multilateral negotiations, the process could be as important as the substance.

She regarded ideas as the very core of politics, and she battled for those that she held.

We are also seeing a resurgence of the sterile debate about process, rather than negotiations on substance.

By November, after all, it will be more than a year since the global crisis began in the US, and Obama and his team must show tangible prospects for recovery. American leadership globally and in Asia can no longer be presumed.

At the core of this is a belief in the rights of human beings to a life of freedom and the protection of their dignity.

These multiple tasks make economic reconstruction fundamentally different from development as usual.

For that reason, they suggest the inclusion of a sentence to the effect that in this case, substance overrules form.

For them, rhetoric is more important than substance and power is more important than how it is exercised.

It is essential to reaffirm the normative essence of the Constitutional Treaty to protect the greatest achievement of the Constitutional Convention.

For the true selves of companies to come through, openness is paramount, but radical openness is not a solution, because when everything is open, nothing is open.

Many Arab citizens in Israel feel that the state actively discriminates against them, just from being in its essence a 'Jewish state'.

In essence, this is an argument that the war was justified as a means of promoting human rights.

His reasoning was that an act of obedience to the law is in its essence more important than one's opinion towards its content or the way in which it is used.

And these changes will be made to have a form of politics that is completely distinct from the politics that are now in play.

And in modern journalism, especially with the emergence of 24 hour news cycles, speed is of the essence in responding to breaking stories.

Process issues had become increasingly difficult over the years and had now reached a point of dangerous interference with the substance .

We need to re consider how we define our democracies, which appear to be mere formalities with little real substance.

Though notoriously secretive, the operation is far removed from the Church s more sensitive, doctrinal core.

It is the spiritual essence of celestial Serbia, the site of its most important Orthodox churches, and therefore far from being just a piece of territory.

The basic requirement was to establish what constituted the essence of a signature and to ascertain how that essence could be recreated electronically.

In the opinion of the authors, this position should be accepted but the Commentary should include the possibility that, in this case, substance overrides form.

In essence, it boils down to whether Europe in the decades ahead will be seen as a model for the future or as a museum of the past.

A Sudan that truly embodied the exemplary essence of respect for diversity of which al Nimeiry spoke would serve as a catalyst for peace and stability on our continent.

General Buyukanit said in April that the country s new president must be secular not just in words, but in essence.

The same applied to draft paragraph 2, which seemed to differ from the Model Law but in substance remained the same.

As the Member States grapple with different facets of revitalization, they come to understand the essence of modern public administration, particularly its homogenizing, supra sector and multidisciplinary thrust, and, consequently, its complexity.

The task of the Commission is not to enter upon such matters of substance but to direct attention to the question of the effects of armed conflict upon the operation or validity of particular treaties.

Years of neglect could not possibly be erased by a trip long in photo opportunities and short in substance.

The very essence of peremptory norms was that they could not be derogated from by agreement between the parties, since that would be contrary to international public policy and international public order.

Jim Collins, the author of Good To Great, told me that successful human organizations of any kind have two things in common they preserve the core, they stimulate progress.

Sarkozy s message is that Chirac and Villepin were right in substance to oppose America s military adventure in Iraq, but that their style was disastrously wrong.

The freedom to create and recreate is bringing out the essence of humanity's beautiful soul if only for a couple of snowy days, a welcome break.

It loses its focus and moves away from the gist of the original, which was a simple story about human emotions, based on friendship between an ordinary barber and a superstar.

Such real debates as there are tend to focus on process rather than substance and many so called decisions simply reflect the lowest common denominator of widely different opinions.

For this reason, the authors believe that an addition to the Commentary to the effect that cases of obvious abuse shall be carefully evaluated, and that substance shall override form, is a must.

The first general election for the Autonomous Bougainville Government, to be established under the Bougainville Constitution, is currently under way and is the next critical stage in giving substance to the Agreement.

In the projects we've been working on, these slick buildings, where they might be a fancy shape, but the materiality feels the same, is something that we've been trying to research really, and explore alternatives.