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After all, they argue, money is a social convention.
And government-issued money is hardly a pure social convention; governments pay employees and suppliers, and demand tax payments in fiat currency.
In China’s view, the key to the success in Copenhagen lies in the realization of the full, effective and sustained implementation of the Convention and its Kyoto Protocol (KP).
Developed countries should also fulfill their obligations under the Convention to provide financial support and technology transfer to enable developing countries to effectively tackle climate change.
(The American audience for the verdict in the sensational O.J. Simpson murder trial last year was about 100 million people, that for the 1992 Democratic Party presidential nominating convention about 7.5 million.)
At the 1992 Republican Party convention, for example, 15,000 journalists were present to "cover" the 4,303 delegates, who in any case, had very little to decide.
Europe's War of Big and SmallThe debate on proposals for a new Constitution for the European Union, now entering its final stage in the so-called "European Convention," is turning into a power struggle between member states over rival visions of the future of the Union.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the President of the Convention, has formally endorsed the Franco-German proposal.
The "Convention," though influential, is just a debating group; the real negotiations between governments will come later this year.
Indeed, when Romney formally accepted the Republican nomination at the party’s convention, he went so far as not to mention US troops in the field, an omission that the Democrats pounced upon when their convention met a week later.
Even if convention allows the American president to appoint the World Bank’s head, the organization’s success depends on the confidence of others.
Clinton supporters, at the convention and elsewhere, tend to attack Trump with ridicule, the method once used by Voltaire against the dogmas of the Catholic Church.
Manafort’s role in the campaign was to help Trump sew up the nomination and run the Republican Party convention, at which Trump’s victory would become official.
Trump is not just challenging political convention to “shake things up”; he is testing the foundations of US democracy.
Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, the responsibility for protecting civilian populations in an occupied country belongs to the occupying forces, which, in this case, are clearly failing to protect Iraqi women.
Even in Britain, where the sovereignty of parliament was until recently sacrosanct, and the separation of powers underdeveloped, a Supreme Court will now be created to scrutinize political decisions on the basis of the European Convention of Human Rights.
The convention of taking sex-crime testimony from alleged victims behind closed doors, under conditions of anonymity or confidentiality, only serves institutions like universities or the military that are intent on covering up criminal behavior.
The commitment to democratic multilateralism has been challenged, and rights guaranteed under international conventions, such as the Convention Against Torture, have been abrogated.
Governments at the recent meeting in Doha of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted for a trade ban on Iranian Kaisers, alongside tougher protection for a host of land-living creatures.
Barely two months ago, the signing of a constitutional document by a US-appointed group of un-elected Iraqi officials was heralded as if it were the re-enactment of America's constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787.
DDT was subsequently banned for agricultural use worldwide under the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which stigmatized the chemical and effectively constituted a prohibition.
The court found that Pavel’s ordeal violated several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, to which Russia is a signatory.
Unlike most politically motivated trials, Tymoshenko’s case benefits from the oversight of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which recently ruled that her pre-trial detention violated the European Convention on Human Rights.
Tropical countries that sign this convention will seriously damage the health of their peoples.
That summer, she took the unusual step of going onto the convention floor to urge the party to nominate him by acclamation.
Thirty years later, Jimmy Carter still spoke bitterly about an incident at the Democrats’ convention in 1980.
The next opportunity for governments to commit to reversing these losses comes at the 65th UN General Assembly in New York this September, followed by the meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan.
In defiance of both the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (the Espoo convention) and the EBRD loan agreement, the program was undertaken in the absence of any consultation with Ukraine’s European neighbors.
Though this contravenes Ukraine’s responsibility, as a signatory to the Espoo convention, to carry out a cross-border environmental-impact assessment (not to mention missing the opportunity to consider potential alternatives to continuing the reactor’s operation), no such analysis is expected to take place.
No public figure needs to be defended, either by law or social convention, from an attack on his or her ideas.
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