As such, they cannot be a matter for compromise.

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C. Jordan's waiver of claims to the West Bank territories

The Crown Prince s abdication became inevitable.

In their view, any concession in the course of a negotiation is weakness.

In 2002, 1,553 people gave up Vietnamese citizenship.

The Committee is concerned that, as noted by the State party, the Constitution is inconsistent with the non discrimination provision of the Convention.

(Crimea was ceded to Ukraine by Nikita Khrushchev only in 1954).

(g) That there is no clear legal provision prohibiting the use as evidence of any statement obtained under torture as well as no clear legal provision stating that an order from a superior may not be invoked as justification of torture

Indeed, nowadays meritocracy seems to be simply another version of the inequality that characterises all societies.

The treaty ceded parts of Finland to the Soviet Union.

The buyer claimed that a reasonable excuse occurs if the seller expressly or impliedly waives his right under article 39 CISG, and that an implied waiver may be derived from an agreement of guarantee entered into by the parties.

In the treaty settlement, the British ceded most Indian lands to the new United States.

Then the question of an arms waiver from the Security Council for its military equipment will be necessary.

A major cause of the problems was perceived to be the absence of a specific provision in the Egyptian Constitution recognizing the Copts as a minority and providing for their protection.

Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established.

Before executing death sentence given to women, conditions for non application of death sentence as provided for in the Penal Code must be checked to see whether their sentence can be commuted to life imprisonment.

During the previous session of the Working Group, the Group reversed its original approach and decided not to include in the draft a provision relating to virtual companies .

Mr. D'Allaire (Canada) said that a disclosure obligation would have no effect without provision for the consequences of failure to comply with that obligation.

Moreover, what he did achieve looks superficial, while what he gave up seems substantial.

This title had been out of use since the abdication of Napoleon I of France on April 6, 1814.

In the end, Miguel was forced from the throne and lived the last 32 years of his life in exile.

Every act of acquisition or disposal is entered in a special register that is numbered and initialled by the mayor or the police commissioner.

Second, the subject for negotiations is unclear, because Putin has ruled out Chechen independence, and surrender by the separatists is just as unlikely.

We went from almost no Afghans having mobile telephones during the Taliban to a situation where, almost overnight, three million Afghans had mobile telephones.

In a concession to commonsense, they concede that people may make mistakes and, to that extent, a stimulus may be beneficial.

On 22 September 1998, the Hague Court of Appeal declared the author's claim inadmissible as, under Dutch law, the decision not to refer the case to another court could not be appealed separately from the Court's ruling on the case itself.

It finally asserted that the respondent had waived its right to arbitration by commencing a Builder's Lien action.

Third, we will examine the statement made by the King of Jordan on 31 July 1988 waiving Jordan's claims to the West Bank territories.

This provision, as per superior court's observation is the equivalent of the doctrine of rule of law .

(11) The offence for which extradition is requested is punishable by the death penalty under the law of the foreign State, whereas the death penalty is not imposed for such an offence under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, and if the foreign State has not provided assurances that the death sentence will not be passed, or, if it is passed, that it will not be carried out

Obama is surrounding himself with accomplished female advisers without calling condescending attention to that fact.

Renewable energy sources have come down rapidly in price, to make wind and solar, at least in the most favorable cases, competitive with fossil fuel electricity generation.

As part of this treaty, the border town of Leticia and its surrounding area was ceded from Peru to Colombia, giving Colombia access to the Amazon River.

In 1999, Portugal gave up the last of Europe's colonies in Asia, Macau, to China, ending an era that had lasted six hundred years.

Sometimes the source of that instability is embedded succession problems, electoral fraud, corruption, the absence of the rule of law, human rights violation, or official ethnic discrimination.

There is clear recognition among developed and developing countries that imprisonment should be used only when no other sentence will accomplish the objectives of sentencing.

Mr. Chong (Singapore) said that his delegation opposed the inclusion of a positive obligation to disclose a party's place of business because of the need to accompany such a requirement by provisions setting out the consequences of failure to comply.

The absence of an identical rule in a future MOTAPM instrument would be a serious weakening of the standards set by Amended Protocol II.

General provision

So much, also, for Magna Carta, which provides that No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.

He has waived America s long standing demand that Iran stop uranium enrichment as a precondition for negotiations, and he has sworn off any idea of regime change.

Renunciation of the development of nuclear weapons by States without nuclear weapons is counterbalanced by access to cooperation and the commitment by the five nuclear Powers to eliminate their nuclear arsenals.

Instead of the rule of law, there would be the law of the mafia, of terrorist groups, and of tribal militias.

How democratic or undemocratic a regime is usually doesn't bother investors. All they need and care about is stable, predictable rules.