This matter takes precedence over any other.

We give precedence to human over weapons security.

Thus, the Constitution establishes the precedence of provisions of international treaties over national law.

According to the report, international agreements, including the Convention, took precedence over national laws.

The reporting delegation should explain whether international agreements also took precedence over the Constitution, who decided when international agreements took precedence over national laws, whether the judiciary was aware of Gabon's international agreements, and if lawyers in Gabon were also trained in international legal questions.

The Great Jamahiriya adheres to the principle that international conventions and protocols take precedence over its domestic legislation.

Paraguay had ratified the Convention, however, and its provisions therefore took precedence over national law and must be applied.

It was not clear to her whether the provisions of international instruments ratified by Gabon took precedence over constitutional provisions.

NOTE Where real data on the substance or mixture is available this data will take precedence over models and predictions.

According to the international financial reporting standards conceptual framework, the substance of any economic transaction should take precedence over its legal form.

This legislation has precedence over any employment contract and applies to every employer whose enterprise employs 10 or more employees, including the government.

Customary law was still applicable by virtue of the Law of England Application Act, but the Constitution took precedence over any other legislation.

Subject to rule 38, the following motions shall have precedence in the following order over all other proposals or motions before the meeting

Subject to rule 38, the following motions shall have precedence in the following order over all other proposals or motions before the meeting

Subject to rule 40, the following motions shall have precedence in the following order over all other proposals or motions before the meeting

Subject to rule 19, the motions indicated below shall have precedence in the following order over all proposals or other motions before the Conference

Subject to rule 36 of these rules, the following motions shall have precedence in the following order over all other proposals or motions before the meeting

Parentheses may be used to force precedence, if necessary.

And I found that there was an historic precedence.

In view of those considerations, it was felt that effective implementation of existing international instruments on the subject should take precedence over the negotiation of any new one.

In combating violence against women, tackling domestic violence took precedence.

A water use existing at the time an equitable sharing determination is made shall take precedence over a competing existing use which came into being later in time, provided that

Hence, there may be some issues that take precedence over others in the process of implementing reforms, since discussion and deliberation on such issues have been sustained over a long period and have matured enough for speedy decisions and perhaps implementation.

Mr. Sossa (Benin) said that since international instruments had precedence over national legislation, the definition of discrimination contained in the Convention was the definition that obtained under the law of Benin.

Member States and civil society representatives underlined that when prevention failed, human security must take precedence over State security and States and the United Nations must accept the responsibility to protect .

These narrower interests, however understandable they may be, should not and will not take precedence over the common goal of improving the major institution mandated with the maintenance of global peace and security.

According to another view, draft article 18 seemed contrary to the Commission's original intention of giving precedence to special treaty provisions, such as those contained in investment protection treaties, over the draft articles.

Say The truth has come, and falsehood had neither precedence nor will reappear.

Say The truth has come, and falsehood had neither precedence nor will reappear.

One part of the answer lies in Germany s strong culture of Ordnungspolitik, or stability policy, which almost always gives precedence to rules over discretion. Success can mean failure if it is achieved with questionable tools.

A water use existing at the time an equitable sharing determination is made shall take precedence over a future use, provided the existing use is beneficial to both Contracting Parties and reasonable under the circumstances.

Indeed, Taiwanese capital and know how built much of China s hi tech industries, and well over a half million Taiwanese live and work near Shanghai in a virtual replica of Hsin Chu, Taiwan s Silicon Valley. But in Chen s Taiwan, domestic squabbles took precedence over economic development.

Article 2. States those rights and freedoms envisaged under the European Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Protocols directly apply in BiH, and that these acts have precedence over any other law.

The objective of such clauses was to ensure that European law takes precedence over the provisions of the multilateral convention in the relations among States members of the Community and between those States and the Community itself.

In accordance with articles 18, 163, 272 and 273 of the Political Constitution of Ecuador, the provisions of the Constitution and of international treaty law take precedence over any domestic laws or rules which are incompatible with those provisions.

While noting the explanation by the State party that the Convention takes precedence over domestic law, the status of the Convention in the case of a conflict between provisions of the Convention and domestic legislation was not sufficiently clarified.

The report states that all rights as stated in the international human rights covenants are protected by the Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia and all principles of the international covenants and conventions take precedence over domestic law (para.

Basketball was second, because it was paying their way, and they do need a little time for social activities, but you let social activities take a little precedence over the other two and you're not going to have any very long.

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.

Some nuclear weapon States were also giving precedence to horizontal disarmament (the physical separation of warheads and missile components) over vertical disarmament (the reduction of nuclear stockpiles), and some were ignoring the existing multilateral approach to non proliferation and security issues.

The success of those negotiations indicate that, in spite of our differences and individual sovereign interests, Member States recognize that we have more things in common than things that divide us and that, for a better world, common interests must enjoy precedence over individual interests.

As the Minister herself had said, the Convention now took precedence over the Civil Code in matters like the stipulations of article 252 that a woman had to obey her husband and article 261, the right to exercise choice of a profession and a domicile.

Thus, in the question of the Malvinas, the violation through a nineteenth century imperialist act of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of an independent republic, Argentina, recognized by Great Britain itself, makes the principle of territorial integrity take precedence over the principle of self determination.

The traditional male role as provider has often led work to take precedence over time spent with family. Indeed, in reflecting on their childhoods, many graduates may lament that their fathers spent too little time at home, or were less nurturing than they could have been.

It was also noted that the text was not clear as to whether the crew's nationality or the ship's nationality took precedence.