The effectiveness of the Council must not be compromised.

Subtractive teaching subtracts from the child's linguistic repertoire, instead of adding to it.

But he did so without ever seeming to despise his opponents or disparage their intentions.

He also questioned the screening of conscientious objectors' applications by a committee composed of military personnel and the derogation from the rights of conscientious objectors in time of war.

As with Article 6, it cannot be derogated from under any circumstances.

Each new terror alert or high tech innovation, it seems, makes new demands on our liberty in the name of security.

The Bush administration's impatience with institutions and allies thus undercuts its own objectives.

The solution to the impasse over Europe s Constitutional Treaty certainly does not lie in the direction of diminishing its scope, and thus perhaps making it just an ordinary treaty.

Ahmadinejad disobeys his orders, tries to discredit him with the public by challenging his authority, and undermines key institutions, including the judiciary and the parliament.

However, the obligation of States to protect their populations did not justify the derogation from or suspension of the human rights of those under their jurisdiction.

The Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 contain explicit fair trial requirements that are not subject to derogation.

The Centre is working to maintain that level of growth in 2006 and 2007 and will ensure that any increase is achieved without compromising the quality and utility of the assistance provided.

So, at least for now, China will focus on another great wave of economic reform, whereas political reform will mostly be limited to reorganization of government agencies to boost efficiency and strengthen efforts to reduce corruption. (There have been some steps toward reform, including a decision to remove judges from local political control.)

Jettisoning the Manichean rhetoric of that war allowed the US to regain the political legitimacy that former President George W. Bush had lost, without diminishing its strategic credibility.

Without diminishing the importance of the existing international instruments against terrorism, it was imperative to agree on a definition of terrorism so as to close any legal loopholes that allowed terrorists to escape justice.

Moreover, the devaluation of the reputational benefit of being a party to the ICSID encourages countries to leave the system, as Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela have recently done.

The representative of Cuba orally revised the draft resolution in its second preambular paragraph by replacing restricted by derogated from , by adding at the end of the fourth preambular paragraph in particular its paragraphs 3, 10 and 11, and by replacing in paragraph 3 based on by bearing in mind .

By that resolution, the Council authorized a temporary increase in UNMIL military strength, to 15,250 military personnel until 31 March 2006, in order to ensure that the Mission's capabilities were not reduced during the politically sensitive period following the elections in Liberia.

The representative of Cuba orally revised the second preambular paragraph by replacing restricted by derogated from , the fourth preambular paragraph by inserting at the end of the sentence in particular its paragraphs 3, 10 and 11, and operative paragraph 3 by replacing based on by bearing in mind .

The international community must also reject as illegitimate all Israeli resolutions and measures that are contrary to international legitimacy, including all attempts to undermine the sovereignty of the Holy City, which will be the capital of the Palestinian State.

More fundamentally, economic integration could have been accompanied by the expansion of a European political space. Compensating for reduced national autonomy by creating room for democratic action at the European level really would have been a victory for democracy.

The right of all countries to equal participation in international arms control, disarmament and non proliferation affairs should be guaranteed, and the international arms control, disarmament and non proliferation process should be promoted on the basis that the security of no country should be diminished.

But the supply siders jumped to the daring conclusion that a permanent cut in tax rates on labor would encourage more work permanently with no diminution of effectiveness.

Both Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak thus regard an attack on Iran as a major strategic move aimed at the broader Middle East, which implies that they would not discount a military campaign that goes well beyond surgical air strikes.

See, for example, General Comment No. 29, adopted by the Human Rights Committee, on article 4 of the Covenant regarding derogations from the provisions of the Covenant during a state of emergency (Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty sixth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A 56 40), vol. I, annex VI).

We also wish to state for the record that the position of Latin America and the Caribbean with regard to the enlargement of the Security Council should not disparaged in favour of that of other regions, particularly given the quantitative and qualitative contributions that have been referred to by the Secretary General since the beginning.

First, would even a partial withdrawal of military force create a security vacuum that could be filled by a rival say, China or Iran? And, second, would any diminution of America s commitment to the region incite the kind of instability that breeds failed states and terrorist havens?

In situations in which the life of the nation was threatened, the State might take emergency measures, provided they were limited to the extent strictly required by the exigencies of the situation, were not inconsistent with the State's other international obligations and did not discriminate on specific grounds.

When Tordenskjold carried out his famous raid at Dynekil in 1716 more than 80 percent of the sailors and 90 percent of the soldiers in his force were Norwegian.

It is a common rule of thumb in business e.g., 80 of your sales come from 20 of your clients.

The channel began broadcasting from the city of Muscat on 17 November 1974, and from Salalah on 25 November 1975.

Initially composed of Indian prisoners of war captured by Japan in the Malayan campaign and at Singapore, it later drew volunteers from Indian expatriate population in Malaya and Burma.

Between 2000 and 2004, of those participating in EBSMs, 45.2 percent were women seven percent were Aboriginal people 4.2 percent were persons with disabilities and 5.1 percent were visible minorities.

Ultimately, more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history.

Less than 2 of the Djiboutians are Christians, but many of the Ethiopians in Djibouti are Christians.

It's unlikely this is just because of the nuclear accident.

Ninety percent of the people live in less than 10 of the area, primarily along the coast.

Nowadays various forms of tamburello are popular in many nations of the world.

Now the services cover about more than 50 of the population.

Slovakia's portion of per capita national income rose from slightly more than 60 percent of that of Bohemia and Moravia in 1948 to nearly 80 percent in 1968, and Slovak per capita earning power equaled that of the Czechs in 1971.

While 25 of the natural gas in Ukraine comes from internal sources, about 35 comes from Russia and the remaining 40 from Central Asia through transit routes that Russia controls.

Most countries suffer serious things like power shortages, water shortages, or food shortages, but here in Israel we re at the luxury end of the market and we suffer ice cream shortages, writes Nicky.

Today, with interest rates near or at record lows in many countries, it is relatively cheap to speculate in gold instead of investing in bonds.

The disaffection of Bahrain s Shi a majority precipitated a series of violent incidents in the 1990s.

By the 1780s, Saint Domingue produced about 40 percent of all the sugar and 60 percent of all the coffee consumed in Europe.