After gaining independence, the country had joined several international organizations and had become a party to the various human rights treaties and conventions.

The arguments are gaining acceptance.

After gaining its independence in 1991, the Republic of Armenia declared itself the successor of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia, thus assuming the legal obligations of the former.

Soon after gaining independence, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea had promulgated its 1946 Law on Equality of the Sexes with the aim of eliminating all forms of discrimination against women.

After this hypothetical region succeeds in gaining independence, Mr. Yokota asked how the courts of this new country could punish the soldiers of the other country for violations against its citizens.

So we are gaining the potential to overcome these problems.

That's how much extra energy Earth is gaining each day.

This process is gaining momentum, the Conference is being enlarged.

Challenges include gaining more political support, increasing transparency and expanding knowledge.

In country after country, extremist political parties are gaining ground. And Russian President Vladimir Putin s incursion into Ukraine, in the EU s backyard, has turned the common European foreign and security policy into a punch line.

These various technological innovations are all gaining commercial success at differing rates.

But you adopt that combination, and then you start gaining weight like them.

Racism and extreme right wing activities existed and were gaining ground in Europe.

Cuban musicians have been prevented from gaining access to the United States market.

First, there are the difficulties many indigenous people experience in gaining access to academic institutions.

Gaining more education would also enhance the ability of young persons to use information technologies.

The legislation also prohibits the incitement, encouragement of or gaining benefit from child sex tourism.

In terms of the French Republic s credo, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, the first principle, liberty, became the motto of our age after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the second is gaining greater precedence today as the economy falters.

Itochu and Charoen Pokphand Group invested 10 billion to CITIC in 2015, gaining 20 stock equity.

Elsewhere, populist anti European parties of the right have been gaining ground with campaigns directed against immigrants and minorities, especially Muslims. This has fueled concern that the populist bloc will be the largest in the European Parliament after next year s EU wide election.

These floats reveal that the upper half of the ocean is gaining heat at a substantial rate.

The Russian News Centre, another important initiative of the Department, was gaining in popularity among Russian users.

Because of its uniquely commanding height, outer space has been gaining ever greater military and strategic value.

Several delegations highlighted the difficulties experienced by small scale fishers in gaining access to high seas fishing grounds.

That service is invaluable for developing States, which sometimes have difficulty gaining access to the most recent jurisprudence.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad may be gaining support across the Muslim world for his fervent criticism of the United States, but inside Iran, he is losing strength. His political rivals are gaining new positions of power, and the population is increasingly unhappy with the economy s continuing decline.

Tell your family and friends about your resolution, thus both gaining support and increasing the personal cost of failure

Governments are called upon to simplify procedures for gaining access to funds available for HIV AIDS prevention and treatment.

However, UNICEF has not managed to resolve the problem of gaining access to locally produced handpumps and spare parts.

So, Dad started racking up all of these patents and gaining a reputation as a blind genius, rocket scientist, inventor.

Second, ordinary people are also gaining greater influence. What does it mean that these seemingly contradictory shifts are happening simultaneously?

Reporting by States is an invaluable means of learning of issues and gaining an initial impression of overall implementation efforts.

Far right nationalist parties are gaining traction in Europe, while millions of undocumented migrants suffer in the shadows. In the United States, President Barack Obama, concerned about his party s ability to retain control of the Senate, has decided to put off immigration reform until after the election in November.

The image of a bank run, of long lines of angry people lining up outside a failed bank, was briefly on our minds after the Northern Rock failure in Britain. But the Bank of England s direct intervention prevented these images from gaining a foothold on our collective psychology.

The once oppressed Kurds are gaining ground. Of the main transnational political groups, the Muslim Brotherhood has been the clearest winner.

At the same time, library staff is gaining new skills in digital preservation in order to ensure accountability and institutional memory.

Measures to safeguard the confidentiality of information and the anonymity of the informant were key in gaining the trust of informants.

And each one of them are excelling in their chosen field, gaining confidence, restoring dignity, and building hopes in their own lives.

Another more subtle possibility is that they start gaining weight, and it changes your ideas of what an acceptable body size is.

The National Transitional Government of Liberia has achieved mixed progress in gaining full control over the exploitation of the country's natural resources.

Finally, after about 10 years of alienating friends and strangers alike, I finally got it, a new personal truth all my own, that if I was going to ever communicate well with other people the ideas that I was gaining, I'd better find a different way of going about it.

In terms of international trade, commercial establishment abroad may be the main method of trade however, e commerce is gaining in commercial importance.

International migration had a significant impact on national economies, and dialogue and cooperation were crucial to gaining a clearer understanding of the phenomenon.

And it was the first Gulf War and Palestinian Intifadah that created the conditions for the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference and the subsequent Oslo Accords. After Rabin s assassination, the notion has been gaining ground that any Israeli Palestinian accord would be the peace of the exhausted, not Rabin s peace of the brave.

One example is the concept of subsidiarity a concept that is very important to us, and one that seems to be gaining in importance.