The Primacy of NATO

American Hegemony or American Primacy?

We must remember the primacy of religion.

To reject the so called Syria Accountability Act, deeming that it oversteps the principles of international law and United Nations resolutions and gives United States law primacy over international law

States parties should respect the primacy of parents, mothers and fathers.

PARIS Negotiations over Iran s nuclear program have been stalled for more than three years. For six years, the voices of reason have largely been drowned out, with passions and delusions claiming primacy.

In short, while the era of US primacy is not over, it is set to change in important ways. Whether or not these changes will bolster global security and prosperity remains to be seen.

Based in the primacy of the Constitutional rules, all other norms should be non discriminatory.

Against this background, primacy seems like a more accurate description of a country s disproportionate (and measurable) share of all three kinds of power resources military, economic, and soft. The question now is whether the era of US primacy is coming to an end.

But they are anti liberal they accept democracy s demand for the popular legitimacy, but reject its demand for constitutionalism (the separation of powers). They do not believe that constitutional norms and representative democracy have primacy over values and legitimate popular grievances.

The national security agencies have continued to acquit themselves satisfactorily since UNAMSIL transferred security primacy to them last year.

Greece s idealistic new leaders seem to believe that they can overpower bureaucratic opposition without the usual compromises and obfuscations, simply by brandishing their democratic mandate. But the primacy of bureaucracy over democracy is a core principle that EU institutions will never compromise.

Theoretically, the Constitution confirms the primacy of constitutional laws over all other laws, but in practice this does not always happen because there still exist old laws that predate the Constitution of 1990, based in the inherited Portuguese system of colonial rule.

How Asia s geopolitical landscape will evolve over the coming decades is not easy to foresee. But it is apparent that an increasingly assertive China is unwittingly reinforcing America s role in Asia, restoring US primacy as the implicit guarantor of security and stability in the region.

Such sentiments result in the widespread implementation of national policies that have a tendency to restrict the economic and social rights (housing, education, health) of these communities and thus illustrate that the political primacy of security over the law brings about a decline in human rights.

But everyone that I knew had an interest in the primacy of the written word in terms of nurturing a democracy, nurturing an enlightened life.

Syria underlines the agreement of world leaders at the September summit concerning the importance of the primacy of law within States and in international relations.

By strengthening democracy, popular participation and the primacy of law, his Government had given a prominent place to human rights and to the individual in society.

La primazia del Tribunale penale internazionale per l'ex Iugoslavia (The Primacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia), in Rivista di diritto internazionale, 1996.

Having noted the statements, announcements and resolutions adopted by various intergovernmental forums and non governmental organizations expressing the international community's rejection of one State's action in giving its national legislation primacy over the principles of international law with a view to infringing upon the sovereignty and interests of States and their peoples,

At first glance, it seems plausible. Indeed, traditional balance of power theory suggests that US primacy in power resources should be offset by a Sino Russian partnership.

The creation of the Council would accord human rights a more authoritative position, corresponding to the primacy of human rights in the Charter of the United Nations.

The defeat of the military revolt was the first time that the republican authority of Paris had been asserted over the pieds noirs who had helped to bring down the Fourth Republic. De Gaulle s firmness and rhetoric aided, it must be said, by the fumbling of the rebels established the primacy of the state.

Underlining the primacy of political will, international cooperation and adequate funding at the national, regional and international levels for the successful implementation of the Durban Programme of Action,

The Code of the Child, which includes all international legal provisions dealing with the rights of children and gives primacy to the interest of the child, including girls.

Indeed, there has been an increasing awareness among nations that international society must embrace the value and the goal of establishing and maintaining the primacy of international law.

It featured the theme National Human Rights Institutions and the primacy of the rule of law in countering terrorism , which was considered by the Forum's Advisory Council of Jurists.

The adoption of both conventions by the General Assembly would reaffirm the primacy of the rule of law in international relations and ensure respect for human dignity and human rights.

Through its governmental structures, Constitution, religious and cultural laws and values, and a neutral and totally independent justice system, Egypt strived to affirm the rule of justice and the primacy of law.

The primacy of the country programming approach means that the implementation strategies are not intended to serve as a blueprint for UNICEF supported programmes and projects in the health and nutrition sectors.

That question was specifically listed in the Jordanian Israel Peace Treaty. The recognition by the three parties of the primacy of the moral and spiritual over the political importance of the city could lead to arrangements on the ground which satisfy the legitimate claims of the three Abrahamic faiths, and subsume the eventual political status of the city to this moral authority.

The Tribunal's primacy in this matter was recognised by the Argentine authorities but those authorities wish to dispose of the extradition request of Serbia and Montenegro before they transfer Lukić to the Tribunal.

With Cardinal Schönborn s intervention, the peace between science and religion that in Old Europe had held almost since the Enlightenment and at least since the historically hard won eviction of the Church from politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries seemed suddenly to have been broken. Revealed truth, the Cardinal seemed to say, must be accorded primacy over the truths science reveals through reason.

With Cardinal Schönborn s intervention, the peace between science and religion that in Old Europe had held almost since the Enlightenment and at least since the historically hard won eviction of the Church from politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries seemed suddenly to have been broken. Revealed truth, the Cardinal seemed to say, must be accorded primacy over the truths science reveals through reason.

He emphasized the primacy of government sector plans, noting the challenges involved in mainstreaming gender within the FTI, and emphasized that lessons learned from small scale initiatives were being harnessed for work in scaling up.

Syria commits itself to make all necessary efforts and to cooperate with Member States that believe in the primacy of the law in order to strengthen the Court's role in all its areas of competence.

In many rich OECD countries, the financial crisis and recession have made government intervention popular again. Governments bail out banks, rush to the aid of manufacturers, and claim primacy in averting national catastrophe and personal hardship.

We therefore attach particular importance not only to good governance, but especially to the primacy of law and the consolidation of democracy, and also to the restoration of the State's capabilities in performing its basic functions.

In the case of Syria, America s regional allies also told President Barack Obama s administration to move on Assad. Saudi Arabia wanted Assad gone to weaken a client state of Iran, the kingdom s main rival for regional primacy.

It is a fact that in Nigeria, in the rest of Africa and, indeed, in all parts of the world and in all cultures, the primacy, sanctity and dignity of human life are not taken for granted.

Certain discussants repeated their concern about an excessive focus on positive corporate contributions and stressed the need for balanced approaches based on the primacy of development concerns and not merely the concerns of economic growth as such.

The Committee notes that under article 6 of the Constitution, the State party recognizes the primacy of generally recognized norms of international law, but is concerned that the status of the Convention in domestic law remains unclear.

Countries which have shaped a constructive, mutually supportive relationship between the public and private sectors have been more successful than those which have opted either for the primacy of the market or the predominance of the state.

A number of delegations emphasized the importance of costing and scaling up initiatives of applying lessons learned from experience within broader national education systems and of mainstreaming gender in major sectoral initiatives, highlighting the primacy of country led strategies.

The Third Plenum of the 18th Party Congress gave primacy to the principle of market competition but, as a senior Chinese banker commented in a related context some years back It s quite hard to compete when you re playing against the referee.