Why then has the Nice treaty ratification ended in such ignominious defeat? |
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No time limit had been placed on ratification of these initial amendments by Congress. |
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This meeting would discuss measures to stimulate the process of ratification of the accession treaty. |
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In short, the ratification process is stone dead, as is the constitutional treaty. |
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The floor leader in the Senate for ratification and for the opposition, agreed that the resolution to ratify should come up for discussion. |
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To help achieve ratification, he penned twenty-nine of the celebrated Federalist Papers. |
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Reconciliation cannot wait for the ratification of a comprehensive peace treaty. |
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It now awaits ratification and the assent by the Chancellor, as the move requires a change in the University statute. |
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But we say the Chief Justice was right to draw distinction between prospective assent and ratification. |
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During the ratification debate Federalists defended the Constitution by arguing that it granted the national government expressed powers only. |
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She is strongly concerned that a delay in ratification could further lower momentum for the effectuation. |
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Moreover, new treaties, protocols, or amendments thereto will normally require positive ratification to enter into force. |
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The editorial office hires the following international professors as our commissarial editors by the ratification of our university. |
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The administration did not intend to submit the treaty for Senate ratification. |
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But there is no hint that the other great lawgivers sought even a formal ratification for their codes. |
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Objectors have two months to make their views known before the proposals go before the executive board in July for ratification. |
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On February 16, 2005, 140 nations celebrated the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. |
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The ratification was high on the agenda for the last sitting of the Slovak parliament before its summer recess. |
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The decision will now go before the Welsh Assembly Government for ratification because it departs from the local plan. |
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Nor do I believe that we should be asking Ireland to negate its recent referendum and prepare for the ratification of the Nice Treaty. |
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With a lot of progress made in recent years on treaty ratification and legislative reforms, my reports put the emphasis on implementation. |
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Not involving representatives of the people is an anachronism in treaty ratification. |
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As already stated, the Convention will enter into force upon the deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval. |
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This Agreement was opened for signature on 1 July 1997, and will enter into force upon ratification by ten States Parties. |
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In the Spanish procedure a ratification of such an agreement has to be approved by both chambers of parliament before it is put to the signature of the King. |
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Indeed, a decree proclaiming a state of emergency must be submitted to the People's Assembly for ratification. |
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On every occasion we urge the other parties, particularly the US and Russia, also to start preparing for ratification. |
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that this agreement makes provision for a signature prior to its ratification and entry into force. |
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Such action or decision must be submitted promptly for ratification by the competent organ. |
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That said, concerns were expressed to the committee about certain provisions of the Protocol which could delay its ratification. |
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Finally, the Commission will look forward to the ratification of the Constitution and the preparation of its entry into force. |
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Italy, Liechtenstein and the EC had no plans for ratification at that time. |
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The present Protocol is subject to ratification and is open to accession by any State. |
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Sixty-seven universities are included in the current application, subject to final ratification. |
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Therefore, the terminable allowance should remain in effect until the ratification of the new collective agreement. |
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This appointment will be put to the next general assembly for ratification. |
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No doubt, the Government's somewhat dismissive and deprecatory attitude towards those opposed to ratification succeeded in turning off a big section of the electorate. |
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Britain was to the fore in pushing for the ratification of more than 30 measures discussed last Thursday by EU home affairs and interior ministers. |
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Similarly, the market opening of port operations is expected to grow in Morocco following the ratification of the law on port reform. |
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His leader said if certain studies were commissioned and done and more talk and blabber went on he would actively support ratification. |
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It shall enter into force on the date of deposit of the ninth instrument of ratification. |
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The Government of Mexico would deposit an instrument of ratification very shortly, and good progress was being made by a number of other Members. |
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The UK's ratification of the convention formally takes effect next month. |
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Details of the new agreement will not be made publicly available pending the formal ratification process by both parties. |
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Not every little thing should be brought back to Parliament for ratification or discussion. |
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The ratification process on the proposed government became in large part a referendum on Washington. |
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The book then races through the Constitutional Convention and the ratification. |
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Assuming these rule changes are approved by the Rules Committee, they will go before the full RNC for ratification on Friday. |
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This year, Kerry and U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power have been pushing hard again for ratification. |
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That was 30 years before the Declaration of Independence, 45 years before the ratification of the Second Amendment. |
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The first principle of ratification in stockbrokerage transactions is that a customer who wishes to take advantage of his broker's wrongful act must repudiate that act. |
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As a result of the ratification by EU Member States, the number of countries ratifying the Treaty will exceed 40 and the Treaty will now enter into force in 90 days. |
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It became known as The Great Compromise because it secured ratification of the Constitution by the small states and saved the republic from certain doom. |
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The concept of reserved powers for the states was formalized with the passage of the Tenth Amendment two years after the ratification of the Constitution. |
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The whiners and complainers lining up against Canadian ratification of the Kyoto Protocol are masters of single ledger accounting. |
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Poland negotiated the Treaty, signed it, and under international law is obliged to go through with the ratification process. |
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At the moment, the treaty assumes each state will go through with its own ratification procedure either by referendum or by assent through individual parliaments. |
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During ratification of the Firefighters contract, it let slip a confidential plan to cut their numbers at radar sites. |
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Since its entry into force, this Protocol is an integrant part of the treaty ETS No. 126 and is no longer open for signature or ratification. |
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He said a state has to ratify and finally deposit instruments of ratification to the institution specified in the treaty, following signing or declaring accession to a treaty. |
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That means that you cannot run ahead of it, out of respect for the ratification process. |
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Consider its hapless efforts to handle major national questions such as the troop dispatch to Iraq or the parliamentary ratification of the Korea-Chile free trade agreement. |
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The Convention will be in force after ratification by 30 governments. |
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Before a decision to strike is put into effect in any one Institution, it may be subject to ratification by the staff of that Institution. |
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We call upon all countries at least to take a break from the ratification procedure and to reflect upon the reasons for the no' vote. |
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The treaty requires ratification by referenda in a number of EU states. |
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I also note that at the present rate of ratification, we will be ahead of schedule as far as our promotion activities are concerned. |
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Thereafter, it shall come into force for each High Contracting Party six months after the deposit of the instrument of ratification. |
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Their original topic has always been based on unconventional medicine in order to demonstrate its effectiveness and obtain its ratification. |
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However, this is the ultimate example of a self-regulatory agreement between the interested parties with little more than ratification by Congress. |
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However, the referendum which took place in the Republic of Ireland recently has reminded us that ratification is not a foregone conclusion. |
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It is time to change the focus of debate from divisive haggling over ratification to united cooperation in implementation. |
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International norms accepted by a State after ratification of an instrument become valid within that country. |
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This Statute is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval by signatory States. |
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Therefore, this ratification process once again testifies to Indonesia's unswerving commitment to the advancement of disarmament efforts. |
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The treaty remained unratified by England till the 20th of September 1490, a year and a half after its ratification by the Spanish sovereigns at Medina. |
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But as a world power, it will undoubtedly use its ratification of the treaty to obtain compromises on the treaty's content. |
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Once the Rubicon of ratification has been crossed, the peaks of implementation and enforcement loom. |
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Reporting will commence in the calendar year following ratification of the treaty. |
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These signed the ESA Convention in 1975 and deposited the instruments of ratification by 1980, when the convention came into force. |
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The open meeting of the Security Council has become a public ratification of a decision that has already been reached in private. |
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Rather than calling for the continuation of the ratification process in an attempt to isolate this new black sheep, it would be better to knuckle down to a clear analysis of the situation. |
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With respect to this article, no special measures were required, since international conventions are, according to Austrian law, self-executing on ratification. |
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In this context, I will present a study from the Tellus Institute, in Boston, which analyzed the costs and benefits of ratification of the Kyoto protocol for Canada. |
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It would also be good, President-in-Office, if you could persuade the new British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, not to bring up the rear in the ratification process, but rather to lead the way. |
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It is to be noted that in parallel to this directive, Member States are anyhow preparing for the ratification of the abovementioned conventions on hazardous and noxious substance and on bunker oil. |
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For example, UNESCO could ask ISESCO to put on the agenda of one of its meetings the ratification of the Convention for member States in Asia, in Arab States and in Africa. |
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By contrast with reservations, declarations may be made not only at the time of signature, ratification, acceptance, approval or accession but also at any time thereafter. |
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The directive upon which we are going to vote tomorrow seeks to bring Community law into line with the provisions of this Convention and to smooth the way for its ratification by the Community. |
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Prevention in relation to hitchhiker organisms brought in on the hulls or in the ballast water of ships would hugely benefit from the ratification and implementation of the Ballast Water Convention. |
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In this respect and despite the peregrinations of the ratification process, the EU institutions must follow this reasoning and establish a genuine participative democracy. |
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It was essential, as States parties had requested, to continue with bilateral and multilateral efforts to encourage ratification of the Convention and thus its universalization. |
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We believe, with just a few exceptions that merely add colour to the debate, that it would be wise for all the Member States to complete their ratification processes. |
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We have done our best to try and break the deadlock without a job action and yet still be able to deliver a good contract to you for ratification. |
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The European Council should, and probably will, suspend the ratification process but it should not pull the plug on the whole constitutional project. |
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Italy plans to assist with dismantlement following ratification of the negotiated agreement by the parliaments of Italy and the Russian Federation. |
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There is also a risk that the imposition of uniformity which is not based on consensus will result in marginalizing certain States and prejudicing the prospects of universal ratification of the new instrument. |
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But shortly after the respective delegations returned from Japan, Canada and the United States began to part company, moving in markedly different directions on treaty ratification. |
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Paul Marriott-Lloyd, Programme Specialist: Anti-Doping, gave a keynote address to the meeting, outlining what the Convention seeks to achieve and emphasizing the importance of its ratification and entry into force. |
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The Committee responded by calling the move one of the most serious, retrogressive measures with respect to the protection of social and economic rights in Canada since its ratification of the governing covenant. |
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Mr President, I would like to think the Spanish Presidency for helping the Irish Government, and indeed the ratification of the Treaty of Nice, by allaying fears at least in the defence and security areas. |
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This calls to mind a dilemma which has been mentioned several times today and widely debated over the last few years: referendum or parliamentary ratification? |
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Similarly, I welcome the legal instrument chosen: the framework decision, which will no doubt prevent the complexity and long duration of ratification procedures. |
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In that case the person concerned must petition for ratification upon filing for judicial review, which must be done inexcusably within ten days of notification that the precautionary measure has been taken. |
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The ratification of the Constitutional Treaty should not be an end in itself, and agitators and expounders will be of no help in this situation, no matter how highly qualified they are. |
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In particular, parliamentarians legislate and adopt national budgets, ratify treaties and conventions or authorize their ratification, check up on the executive's action, policies and agents. |
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The present Protocol shall enter into force upon the deposit of the instruments of ratification by a simple majority of the Member States of the Union. |
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The application of the Arrangement is provided for by article 17: it shall come into force upon the ratification by ten countries, three of which shall not be adherents to the Arrangement of The Hague now in force. |
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The ratification of the Hague Trust Convention does not supersede the mandatory provisions of Swiss civil law, notably the forced heirship provisions. |
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The full-dress revision procedure, with ratification by the national parliaments of each Member State, in some cases after a referendum, is fully justified for the fundamental provisions. |
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The importance of this period cannot be overemphasized because it is during this time that commitments and plans related to the ratification, signing and effective date are carried out by the parties. |
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What we have seen in that context and in other criminal activities is of course the most powerful argument for us getting ahead with ratification of the convention by as many countries as possible. |
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Program funds can fund related costs such as planning, engaging, customizing existing products to the unique needs of the beneficiary, ratification, and implementation. |
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Should these steps prove to be of no avail, Mr President, then I would plead for a postponement of the ratification of the Euro-Mediterranean Treaty. |
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Civil society has to take the lead to lobby for the ratification and implementation of the recommendations of this Convention as an inroad towards building a spirited fight against Corruption in Uganda. |
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The Prime Minister may get the last laugh on the member for LaSalle-Émard by taking credit for ratification while leaving the painful details of implementation. |
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Today, I urge the President of the Russian Federation to come clean and support the rapid ratification of the Protocol and to ensure the speediest possible reintroduction of it to the Duma. |
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I am at your disposal to further inquire about the exact details of the ratification process in Turkey, but the essence of the matter is really that the declaration by Turkey is simply unilateral. |
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Other political group leaders criticised the French Presidency for backing down on the climate change package and for pushing forward with the Lisbon ratification despite the initial No in Ireland. |
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The final step in the ratification process is generally for the government of the ratifying country to deposit an instrument of ratification with an institution or office designated in the treaty. |
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Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol is not, in fact, something Parliament has to do, but neither can we allow a situation to develop in which laxness on the part of the Member States means there is no ratification whatsoever. |
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With breathtaking arrogance and disregard for democracy, the European political elite intend to bulldoze onwards with the ratification of the Treaty. |
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The AEDH, as one of the 42 sponsors of the petition for the ratification of the Migrant Workers Convention, calls on EU Member states to finally ratify it. |
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As a result, the union quite probably said that if the government would not relent on its back to work legislation it would not relent on its right to go on strike during the ratification process. |
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When a directorship becomes vacant during a term of office, the Board of Director may appoint a new member, subject to ratification by the next following ordinary Shareholders' Meeting. |
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Opposition members of the Diet staged a sit-in to delay ratification and there was unprecedented popular opposition, with a series of huge strikes and violent demonstrations by workers and students. |
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Mr. Grossman answered in jest that a ratification by Canada of the American Convention on Human Rights would assist us to nominate better qualified Commission members. |
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It is in everyone's interest that all the provisions of the agreement enter into force very quickly and I hope that the ratification process in this case proceeds expeditiously. |
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The present Convention shall come into force on the ninetieth day following the date of deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification or accession. |
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Laws adopted before the ratification of an international instrument and containing provisions at variance with the provisions of the instrument were amended. |
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In order to avoid blockage by a small minority, a more equitable and less paralyzing procedure is needed, for example, a level of ratification of two thirds of member states. |
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The failure to obtain unanimous ratification of the European constitution project appears to support this point of view, which is widely held internationally. |
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The procedures for ratification or accession are laid down under national law and generally involve approval by a national legislative body and by the head of state. |
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I believe we will recommend ratification and moving forward to a new reform, but we must look at the small print to decide whether that is the right way forward. |
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The first act, which is a prerequisite for the ratification of the Convention in Dutch law, entered into force on 29 December 2004 and was deposited at the same date. |
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We must finally put an end to the situation seen up to now, in which the various countries have merely been engaging in ratification and glorification. |
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In April, the Supreme Court suspended a federal police operation to evict the rice farmers pending a ruling on an appeal against the ratification process brought by the state government and two deputies. |
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I am concerned that those who would seek to deny parents the right to administer corporal punishment to their children would use the ratification of this convention to further their efforts to deny parents this option. |
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Uncertainty about the actual timeframe of the sixty-fifth ratification and about the participation of the two major possessor states had complicated planning and final preparations. |
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The successful ratification of the Lisbon Treaty allowed us to end a long period of introspection which had distracted the Union from the major challenges affecting our future. |
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Some analysts say that using this term could even jeopardize the peace process that is under way and threaten ratification of the peace treaty that Khartoum and the rebels are about to sign. |
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However, a paradoxical situation had emerged whereby the protracted ratification of the amendment to annex B of the Kyoto Protocol was preventing Belarus from making use of the Kyoto mechanism to modernize its economy. |
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Spain, however, is not simply going to accept Britain's desire to force all of its partners to negotiate a treaty which requires parliamentary ratification or referendums across the member states. |
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I hope the ratification process carried out by the Community, and by the Member States that have yet to do so, is concluded at the earliest opportunity. |
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They agreed to encourage the adoption and ratification of such instrument. |
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At present, the ratification process in the US has yet to be completed. |
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Progress with its ratification has proved more difficult than expected. |
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Climate change is by far the most relevant issue to the mainstream financial community in Canada, due largely to the Canadian government's ratification of Kyoto. |
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The Chair of the Bureau reported that the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Romania had written to his counterparts encouraging ratification of the Protocol. |
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The reform of the voting modalities will enter into force following ratification by all Member States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements. |
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On 15 February we marked the ratification of the instrument by Haiti. |
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Upon approval by the International UTU, the agreement will be subject to ratification by the affected UTU membership. |
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The wars ended in 1436 with the ratification of the compromise Compacts of Basel by the Church and the Hussites. |
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Treaties do not, on ratification, automatically become incorporated into UK law. |
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A national ratification was completed and registered when the instruments of ratification were lodged with the Government of Italy. |
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All of these protocols have required the unanimous ratification of all the member states of the Council of Europe to enter into force. |
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As of 2014 and since 12 April 2014 is provisionally applying the agreement pending its ratification by all EEA member states. |
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After that date constitutional amendments would require ratification by way of public referendum before they could come into force. |
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They are submitted to the national parliaments for approval in keeping with the ratification procedure applied in each of the Member States. |
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The treaty was written in 2008 and was to come into force 30 days after the date of receipt of the ninth instrument of ratification. |
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It was within the power of the old Congress of the Confederation to expedite or block the ratification of the new Constitution. |
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Then followed an arduous process of ratification of the Constitution by specially constituted conventions. |
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The text requires no additional action by Congress or anyone else after ratification by the required number of states. |
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The other two are no longer pending, as both had a time limit attached and in both cases the time period set for their ratification expired. |
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It can change only by extraordinary legislative process of national proposal, then state ratification. |
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It also has the independent authority to make minor changes to the code without ratification by the General Assembly. |
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The agreement is now open for ratification, and will come into force when 50 signatories have ratified it. |
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During the ratification conventions, despite Coke being mentioned, it was not during debates over the striking down of unconstitutional statutes. |
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By the time the Bill of Rights was submitted to the states for ratification, opinions had shifted in both parties. |
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Additionally, prior to ratification of the 23rd amendment in 1961, district citizens did not get the right to vote in Presidential elections. |
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Signature and ratification do not, of themselves, make treaties operate domestically. |
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Proposed treaties have also occasionally been presented to parliament for debate before ratification. |
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The government is expected to re-assess a draft law on the issue before resubmitting it to Parliament for ratification. |
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The Italians used the time between the signing of the treaty and its ratification by the Italian government to expand their territorial claims. |
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Following the formal signing of the Treaty on 2 October 1997, the Member States engaged in an equally long and complex ratification process. |
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The ratification of the first constitution in 1824 led to the formation of a bicameral legislature, now called the National Congress. |
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In April 1503, Henry VII sent the Bishops of Hereford and Worcester to Rome for the Pope's ratification. |
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Croatia joined on 1 July 2013, following ratification of the 2011 Accession Treaty by all other EU countries. |
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His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution toward the ratification of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. |
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The Italians used the time between the signing of the treaty and its ratification by the Italian government to further expand their territorial claims. |
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Pending the ratification of Protocol 14 itself, 14bis was devised to allow the Court to implement revised procedures in respect of the states which have ratified it. |
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Article One, section 6, Clause 1 has been affected by this amendment, which remained pending for over two centuries as it contained no time limit for ratification. |
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The former require unanimous ratification by member states before coming into force, while the latter require a certain number of states to sign before coming into force. |
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The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. |
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Then the OPLC announced on 11 February 2011 that West Ham had been selected as the preferred bidder for the Olympic Stadium, subject to final governmental ratification. |
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The convention was opened for signature on 10 December 1982 and entered into force on 16 November 1994 upon deposition of the 60th instrument of ratification. |
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In the three decades following the first ratification in 1968, the number of new ratifiers was forty-five, forty-five, and forty-nine, respectively. |
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The APF succeeded in gaining ratification of the pacifist position at two successive Lambeth Conferences, but many Anglicans would not regard themselves as pacifists. |
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Brownson argued that it is not ratification alone that makes a written constitution of government legitimate, but that it must also be competently designed and applied. |
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Responding to these concerns, five state ratification conventions recommended a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to jury trial in civil cases. |
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A SHORTHAND typist who helped to record the ratification of the Geneva Conventions in the aftermath of World War II has celebrated her 100th birthday. |
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Virginia initially postponed its debate, but after Vermont was admitted to the Union in 1791, the total number of states needed for ratification rose to eleven. |
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Each act details the mechanism by which the territory will be admitted as a state following ratification of their constitution and election of state officers. |
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Neither the Convention which drafted the Constitution, nor the Congress which sent it to the thirteen states for ratification in the autumn of 1787, gave it a lead caption. |
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The ratification method is chosen by Congress for each amendment. |
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