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

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.

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.

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

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

This matter takes precedence over any other.

We give precedence to human over weapons security.

Parentheses may be used to force precedence, if necessary.

And I found that there was an historic precedence.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The reaction by radicals and militarists in Armenia, however, had forced the Armenian President to resign and the new President had withdrawn the agreement, demonstrating that Armenia's territorial ambitions took precedence over the grievances of displaced Armenians and the disastrous situation of Armenians in the Nagorny Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

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

Delegations have different perceptions of what constitutes a threat to their national security, and which of the core issues should take precedence.

Historically, the Kurds who are distinct in language, culture, and historical consciousness from Arabs never had their day in court. After World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Allies promised them a state of their own a promise that was cynically betrayed when British and French imperial interests took precedence.

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

Their interest in my country exemplifies the world's support of freedom in its broader sense and gives precedence to the language of moderation.

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

The composition of the Chamber, in order of precedence, is as follows Judge Treves, President Judges Marotta Rangel, Yankov, Bamela Engo, Akl, Anderson and Xu, members.

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

The Chairman or the presiding officer of a subsidiary body may be accorded precedence for the purpose of explaining the conclusions arrived at by that subsidiary body.

The composition of the Chamber for Fisheries Disputes, in order of precedence, is as follows Judge Caminos, President Judges Yamamoto, Kolodkin, Park, Wolfrum, Ndiaye and Jesus, members.

Another challenge is to preserve and promote national ownership of the peacebuilding programmes and activities and to ensure that the priorities of the country concerned have precedence.

The members of the Chamber, in order of precedence, are as follows President Nelson Vice President Vukas Judges Park, Treves and Ndiaye, members Judges Anderson and Lucky, alternates.

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.

The composition of the Chamber, in order of precedence, is as follows Judge Marsit, President Judges Caminos, Yankov, Park, Mensah, Chandrasekhara Rao, Anderson, Jesus, Xu, Cot and Lucky, members.

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

Furthermore, the current Puerto Rican Constitution, which had been tailored and authorized by the United States Congress, made it very clear that Federal law would take precedence in all circumstances.

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 .

While the provision of water may take precedence in the early stages of an emergency, sanitation and hygiene inputs are also critically important, as is strengthening national institutional response and coordination capacity.

However, she was uncertain as to the place of the Convention in the domestic legal order while the report stated that the Convention took precedence over domestic legislation, it also pointed out that, owing to the lack of a specific text incorporating the provisions of the Convention into national law, question marks remained over the efficacy of its implementation because of the absence of remedies in the event of violation.

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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.