Nor have the more drastic calls for the suspension of some of our activities gone unheard.

The usual causes of an ERA's suspension are system or communications failures.

Three years have been wasted, and we have seen no signs of suspension or willingness to negotiate.

In the practice of many countries, procuring entities retain broad flexibility to suspend reverse auction procedures and fix the time frame of suspension.

However, by the second quarter of 2004 several departments had indicated increasing difficulties arising as a result of the suspension.

(6) As regards paragraph 3, and to guard against abuse, any decision to suspend an auction and the reasons therefor should be included in the record of the procurement proceedings.

Mr. Madrid Parra (Spain), endorsing the comment by the delegation of Austria, said he was against allowing an REIO to make a declaration without the consent of its member States.

A draft policy paper was discussed at the public hearing, made available on the website for public comment and finalized in September 2003.

Vol. 36, pp. 89 96 (1942) (describing US suspension of International Load Line Convention during World War II based on rebus sic stantibus doctrine).

b As a result of the suspension of the activities of the Identification Commission, 157 international staff posts remain authorized but unbudgeted for the period.

(c) Develop programmes to prevent and combat HIV AIDS, taking into account the Committee's general comment No. 3 on HIV AIDS and the rights of children (2003)

In keeping with the concerns expressed by Secretary General Annan in late October, Australia registered strong condemnation of Iranian President Ahmadinejad's comments calling for Israel to be wiped off the map.

b As a result of the suspension of the activities of the Identification Commission, 73 civilian police remain authorized but unbudgeted for the period.

Suppose foreign investors wrote contracts providing that the expulsion and banning of foreign journalists or widespread blocking of access to international news sources and social media constituted a sign of political risk sufficient to suspend investor obligations under the contract.

According to the Committee's general comment No. 1 on the implementation of article 3, the obligation on a State party to refrain from returning a person to another State is only applicable if the person is in danger of being subjected to torture as defined in article 1 of the Convention.

As the Beijing Review commented, when Goldman Sachs created the acronym BRIC in 2001, neither the economists nor the rest of the world imagined that Brazil, Russia, India, and China would finally sit together to build up a substantial platform one day.

The Committee invites the State party to identify disaggregated indicators and appropriate national benchmarks in relation to priority health concerns, including HIV AIDS, in line with the Committee's general comment No. 14 (2000), and to include information on the process of identifying such indicators and benchmarks in its next report.

But what is extraordinary about Palin s comment is that, despite being a strong proponent of the sanctity of human life, in criticizing Obama she did not pause to deplore the serious loss of innocent human life that American air strikes in Afghanistan have caused.