Specifically, the Commission decided to seek a legal opinion from the Legal Counsel on the following question

However, the prevalent view had been that such matters were best left to domestic legislators.

In response, the Legal Counsel requested that the following views be recorded

Conventional wisdom has always held that the state with the largest military prevails.

As members are aware, my delegation could not make its view prevail in the General Committee.

The Commission also decided that the request for a legal opinion from the Legal Counsel should not include technical or scientific issues.

Reinstatement was automatic according to the legal opinion of the United Nations.

According to the New York Times, this has made it hard to tell the difference between popular sentiment and manufactured public opinion.

This view is based on the fact that the authors themselves and the addressees have not been unanimous in considering them to be legally binding declarations.

A legal opinion is not a guarantee that a court will reach any particular result.

This was almost completely unexpected, as the prevailing view was that financial markets are self correcting.

This would only perpetuate further the long held view of the government that Muslims are distinct and separate.

The current situation of legal uncertainty allowed for practices that harm the interests of indigenous peoples and threatened their traditional knowledge as well as their genetic resources.

Current conventional wisdom places the blame squarely on the close ties that developed between policymakers and the financial industry in recent decades.

He regretted that the international community's political organs had so far failed to convert that legal opinion into political action.

TOKYO There is something odd and disturbing about the conventional wisdom surrounding the upcoming Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The world looks to the UN as never before, yet the conventional wisdom is that we are not up to the job.

We share the broadly held view that the basic principles that have already been identified and recognized can guide the settlement of this issue.

Growth has slowed, exports have plummeted, and unemployment has jumped, and the prevailing view has been that a blame America first strategy makes the most sense.

During the discussion concerning the request for a legal opinion from the Legal Counsel, the Commission also considered whether the agenda of the fifteenth session should be amended in order to include a new item concerning such a request.

The Justice for all policy paper acknowledges the situation of Afghan women who are severely disadvantaged under the existing legal system and calls for concerted action to protect women's rights.

Third, Cuba agreed with the view that the existing legal regime was inadequate to ensure the prevention of an arms race in outer space.

The common opinion is that HCV is a former drug users problem, that it s impossible to be cured and it s not so widely spread.

(n) China, on the other hand, did not share the view held in Europe and the United States of America that treaties generally continued during the Second World War, or were at worst temporarily suspended.

The conventional wisdom is, however, wrong worse, it is dangerous, for we have all seen how quickly it can take hold, distort reality, and then harden like cement.

Debates within eurozone member states typically converge on what legal scholars call herrschende Meinung ( dominant opinion ), which, in turn, appears to reflect their countries status as creditors or debtors.

In addition, one member of the Commission indicated that, even though he did not fully agree with the request for a legal opinion from the Legal Counsel and its formulation, he would not formally object to it so that the Commission could achieve consensus on this matter.

(k) Regarding economic treaties, McIntyre emphasizes that there was no case in which an economic treaty was definitely regarded by the United States as terminated by World War II despite the widely held view that war abrogates treaties of commerce.

Policymakers conventional wisdom reflected, therefore, a belief that only interventions aimed at identifying and correcting the very specific imperfections blocking attainment of the nirvana of market equilibrium were legitimate.

The general view was that the provisions on the accessibility standards currently contained in article 4 bis should be dealt with as a separate consideration, and that they should clearly address all forms of communication, and not just electronic ones.

Catholicism is the country's predominant faith.

Islam is the predominant religion in Senegal.

The current trend is toward decentralization.

US State Department legal adviser Harold Koh disagrees, arguing that America is involved in a worldwide armed conflict with Al Qaeda, as well as the Taliban and associated forces.

Regardless of whether it s Chancellor Angela Merkel or Foreign Minister Frank Steinmeier, this answer reverberates across the political spectrum, and it is held irrespective of which parties or people form the government.

The prevailing exchange rate system is lopsided.

The conventional wisdom will tell you that the MDGs targets reducing poverty and hunger, improving the health of mothers and children, combating HIV AIDS, increasing access to education, protecting the environment, and forging a global partnership for development are simply unattainable.

To be sure, in the legal tradition of common law countries, an appellate court cannot disturb an acquittal below, and indeed to do so, would pose serious constitutional questions.

This theory went strongly against conventional wisdom.

They would be called terrorists by the Israelis and the prevalent media because

The use of radio, television, and Internet in Mexico is prevalent.

The language is quite different from mainstream Yemeni Arabic.

Rampant insecurity seems to be the order of the day.

Israel s conventional strategic wisdom was based on an equation of Bushehr versus Yitzhar that is, a readiness to dismantle West Bank settlements if the Iranian centrifuges in Bushehr were dismantled. As far as Netanyahu is concerned, this is not taking place.

The economists commonplace that a monetary union demands a fiscal union is only part of a much deeper truth about debt and obligation debt is rarely sustainable if there is not some sense of communal or collective responsibility.