Mr. Hariri and his parliamentarian bloc voted in its favour.

It is not for them to denounce treaties generally, en bloc.

The phrase dichotomy of gender versus party referred in particular to situations where women in elected positions responded to the interests of their political bloc or partisan group, while not genuinely taking into account women's specific needs.

20 years ago, Bonnier, Swedish publisher, started to set newspapers in the former Soviet Bloc.

By the end of January 2005, there was a formidable power bloc emerging in Lebanon, bringing together, for the first time, representatives of almost all political and religious communities, with the noted exception of the Shi ite groups Amal and Hizbollah.

The risk of East West confrontation has faded away with the disappearance of the Eastern bloc.

(ii) advancing Asian and Pacific economic integration as a building bloc of the multilateral trading system and the global economy

At the centre of this power bloc one man stood as its perceived architect the former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri.

Surveys indicate that the Irish are strong supporters of EU membership and the integration process. The problem is that these favorable attitudes vary considerably in intensity and constitute a soft bloc of support for the EU in the 2008 referendum, this soft bloc crumbled in the final week of the campaign.

While the two main currencies of the day were slugging it out, France headed a European gold bloc of countries whose currencies became increasingly overvalued against both, until the bloc collapsed in 1936. A world economic conference, convened in London in 1933 to end the currency war, adjourned without reaching any decision.

Substitute China for Britain and today s eurozone for the gold bloc and the trend of events today has the same ominous feel.

What is more, the human rights instruments never appear as a bloc or a coherent whole, but rather as random items on a shopping list .

The ultimate objective willould be to advance Asian and Pacific economic integration as a building bloc of the multilateral trading system and the global economy.

Such coordination could begin by linking the various currencies in the region in a common bloc, floating vis à vis the rest of the world.

Given the distribution of seats in the Parliament, a constitutional amendment required the support of Mr. Hariri's bloc, a support he was unprepared to lend.

This power bloc was independent from, if not hostile to, the Syrian influence and seemed confident of winning a clear majority in the upcoming elections.

A combination of biomass, aquifers, burning vegetable oil a process that, quite interestingly, was developed in Eastern Germany, at the time of its dependence on the Soviet Bloc.

Venezuela's international policy was based on a new concept of economic, financial and trade diplomacy and the introduction of regional bloc policies which defended sovereignty against hegemonistic aspirations.

When such standards are adopted by a regional trading bloc, they may become a significant barrier to the distribution of developing country products, for example in the area of textiles.

The latest events clearly indicate that a czarist mentality survived the revolution, reflected in a Byzantine model of political power an emperor and his court that has as its main vehicle largely unconstrained presidential authority. Before the security forces targeted the opposition bloc that I represent, supporters of educational reforms were prosecuted, while most of the press is under the influence of the government.

It was that you knew you had to, because, in the late 1940s, country after country in Central Europe was falling into the Soviet bloc, and so you knew you'd no choice.

The bloc was going places or so it seemed. But seven years, seven summits, and one new member (South Africa joined in 2010) later, the significance of the BRICS remains hotly debated.

It will assist all Member States in assessing how best to ensure that critical human rights work not be hamstrung by bloc voting or by those States that systematically violate human rights.

The international community must fully rid itself of confrontational and bloc oriented thinking, the desire to monopolize and dominate in international affairs and attempts to divide States into the leaders and the led.

3. The economy of the country suffered significantly from the dissolution of the socialist bloc that provided a market for its industrial goods and was a source of cheap and subsidized raw materials, including fuel.

Such initiative has been extended to the other members and associated States to the MERCOSUR Bloc, which are currently amidst the process of ratification of a Regional MoU, similar to the one signed by Brazil and Argentina.

As Europe continues down the road of digital transformation, the possibilities for growth are immediate and significant. The continent is already the world's largest economic bloc, with a GDP of more than 14 trillion ( 15.2 trillion) in 2014.

In 1992, with a view to intensifying the effects of Cuba's loss of 85 per cent of its foreign trade after the European socialist bloc and the Soviet Union fell apart, the United States passed the Torricelli Act.

Replace political situation of , with political situation in .

Hamas officials, including Mahmoud Ramahi, the leader of a bloc in the Palestinian National Council, have publicly supported the UN recognition bid. According to Mousa Abu Marzook, Hamas s deputy leader, his movement is not opposed to Abbas s diplomatic initiative.

Initially, the US backed Maliki in order to keep the Sadrist bloc from gaining a share of power. However, that has now backfired, since the Sadrists are the only group other than Maliki s coalition of Shia parties that supports him.

Yet the Universal Declaration marked a giant step forward, as the world s governments with abstentions from the Soviet bloc states, Saudi Arabia, and apartheid South Africa, but with no votes in opposition agreed that rights should take precedence over state power.

If he doesn t, and if no younger candidate emerges, the youth bloc in Iran s electorate may have nowhere to turn. Without a voice for their concerns, Iran s young people face the prospect of increased frustration, whatever the outcome of the election.

Initially, the US backed Maliki in order to keep the Sadrist bloc from gaining a share of power. However, that has now backfired, since the Sadrists are the only group other than Maliki s coalition of Shia parties that supports him.

That principle, mentioned repeatedly since the beginning of this preparatory process by the bloc of developing countries that constitute the majority of Member States, seems to have been sidestepped once again in the approach taken in the Secretary General's report.

The decision by Mr. Jumblatt's bloc to join forces with them was a major development insofar as it expanded the opposition coalition beyond the sectarian dividing lines, especially in light of Mr. Jumblatt's traditional alliance with the Syrian Arab Republic.

Many Asians still remember Japanese efforts before and during World War II to create a Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere a self sufficient bloc of countries, under Japan s leadership through conquest. Might China be on a similar albeit less openly aggressive path?

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.

In France, for example, many supporters of the National Front voted communist 30 years ago. And, indeed, the National Front s economic program is rather similar to that of the Left Front (an electoral bloc comprising the French Communist Party and the Left Party).

In the former Soviet bloc, it was the poets, dramatists, cartoonists, and novelists whose works encoded forbidden themes of freedom, and who were targeted by the secret police. Today, they are bullied, silenced, and tortured in places like Iran, Syria, China, and Myanmar.

The US has profited from a longstanding alliance with the Sunni bloc. In addition to the strategic advantages, America s close ties with the oil sheikhdoms which are among the world s leading holders of foreign exchange reserves contribute to propping up the dollar.

So far, the goal of global realignment away from the advanced countries has catalyzed these five very disparate countries efforts to forge their own bloc. But the primacy given to advancing national interests has always precluded real concerted action, at least until now.

That was a political problem which must be addressed by political means.

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