There are no degree conferring universities in Bermuda.

A bill conferring land title upon Amerindians was currently before the legislature.

262. There is no legislation conferring legal title to those living in the illegal sector.

The Prime Minister was there participating in a ceremony conferring city status on the settlement.

60. There are no degree conferring universities, and no business or law schools in Bermuda.

Some 21 countries achieved over 70 per cent coverage of children under five years with two rounds of supplementation, thereby conferring full life saving protection.

Conferring constitutional status on the Convention would enhance its effectiveness by providing for direct domestic application.

Now, those questions, which, of course, you've got right, and you haven't been conferring, and so on.

Consideration should be given to conferring investigative powers on appropriate bodies in connection with monitoring and evaluating disclosures, as well as to imposing sanctions for false reporting.

Another concern was that paragraph (9) might be read as conferring priority in proceeds independently of priority in the receivables.

It should encourage States parties to normative multilateral treaties, including human rights treaties with monitoring bodies, to adopt protocols conferring on those bodies competence to pass on the validity of reservations.

Such conferring of nationality was to be carried out by enacting legislation, exercising the right of option and withdrawing prior nationality.

The traditional prudent approach of avoiding conferring any additional competence on the treaty bodies was manifested in the practice of States.

The jurisdiction of a court chosen in accordance with paragraph 1 is exclusive for disputes between the parties to the contract only if the parties so agree and the agreement conferring jurisdiction

The conferring of privileges and immunities could be achieved through the adoption of an amendment to the Kyoto Protocol pursuant to its Article 20.

The law does need one more amendment i.e. conferring the right to Pakistani nationality to the husband of a Pakistani woman married to a foreigner.

The ceiling skewed the principle of capacity to pay by conferring a benefit on the wealthiest contributor, the burden of which was borne by the others.

It was understood that the provision was intended to relate to the conferring of standing to bring actions and not to the creation of substantive rights.

I should also like to draw the Assembly's attention to a further international agreement conferring jurisdiction on the Tribunal the 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage.

A provision conferring jurisdiction on the Tribunal could also be included in bilateral agreements in respect of disputes arising out of the interpretation or application of the relevant agreement.

Thus it is the deed of constitution of the union, once accepted by the requisite number of persons, which has the consequence of conferring legal personality on the union.

Community development was seen as very important to women, and she had already been conferring with other members of the National Women's Council on how the appropriate ministries could be brought together to devise a comprehensive rural development strategy incorporating a gender perspective.

Conferring additional powers on the human rights treaty monitoring bodies, which were becoming more numerous, would only serve to complicate matters and worsen the already existing confusion in the current regime.

The provision conferring a right to tender in writing in a sealed envelope also precludes an ERA if a supplier does not agree to the use of the method (article 30(5)).

More than a million persons, most of them young people, filled the country apos s prisons, conferring on it the dubious distinction of having the highest rate of imprisonment in the world.

His delegation felt that a cautious approach needed to be taken with regard to conferring on target States a right to seek and obtain just compensation for unlawful damage sustained owing to illegal or excessive sanctions which would call into question the very legality of the sanctions imposed.

Privileges and immunities in the climate change process The Convention and the Kyoto Protocol do not contain any provisions conferring privileges and immunities on their organs or on officials and representatives serving on these organs.

We would in practice be conferring upon an observer certain attributes which by their nature are proper to a Member State, in particular those set out in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the annex to the draft resolution.

If the shipper and the carrier agree that a competent court has jurisdiction to decide disputes that may arise under this Convention, then that court has non exclusive jurisdiction, provided that the agreement conferring it is concluded or documented

(f) the employer State and the employee have otherwise agreed in writing, subject to any considerations of public policy conferring on the courts of the State of the forum exclusive jurisdiction by reason of the subject matter of the proceeding.

And a man came from the farthest end of the city, running. He said, O Moses, indeed the eminent ones are conferring over you intending to kill you, so leave the city indeed, I am to you of the sincere advisors.

And a man came from the farthest end of the city, running. He said, O Moses, indeed the eminent ones are conferring over you intending to kill you, so leave the city indeed, I am to you of the sincere advisors.

9. Furthermore, the case law of the monitoring bodies has lengthened the list of those rights whose exercise may not be suspended, by conferring non derogable status on other rights that are not explicitly specified in the international legal instruments themselves.

Improved methods introduced in recent years, while nurturing the symbiotic relationship that should bond Council and Assembly, prove that conferring does not hinder the Council apos s ability to intervene with the required swiftness. In seeking solutions, even on what type of expansion the Security Council should undergo, the need for general agreement must be underscored.

In Haiti, under the Duvalier regime, it was standard practice for over two decades for the legislature to end its brief annual sessions by conferring full powers on the executive and suspending the most important constitutional guarantees during the long recess period.

An investor shall fulfill the financial management duties through the shareholders' meeting, board of directors or other internal institutions, and may grant conferring part of financial management duties to the operators in manner of articles of association, internal systems or contractual stipulations and so on.

A 2006 UN mandate review finds that UN member states adopt hundreds of mandates each year, conferring additional responsibilities with neither corresponding funds nor guidance on how resources should be used. In American domestic politics, these kinds of commands from the US Congress to states are known as unfunded mandates ordering results without providing the resources necessary to achieve them.

The draft law on the prevention and suppression of terrorism will include a provision conferring competence on the Comorian authorities to deal with offences covered by the universal counter terrorism instruments if the alleged perpetrator of one or more of these offences is on Comorian territory, wherever the offence was committed and regardless of the nationality of the alleged perpetrator.

As regards administrative detention, it appears that the authority given to the Executive power, by law, to place a person in an administrative detention for a six month period which may be renewed indefinitely, constitutes in itself an abuse of power conferring on the detention an arbitrary character.

When they had lost all hope of persuading him, they withdrew, conferring among themselves. The eldest said, Do you not know that your father took from you a pledge in God's name. You have already failed with regard to Joseph, so I shall never leave the land until my father permits me to, or God decides things for me. He is the best judge!

When they had lost all hope of persuading him, they withdrew, conferring among themselves. The eldest said, Do you not know that your father took from you a pledge in God's name. You have already failed with regard to Joseph, so I shall never leave the land until my father permits me to, or God decides things for me. He is the best judge!

(g) Several members of CEB also expressed concern that conferring formal authority and accountability for the development and monitoring of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) results matrix to the resident coordinator might erode the authority of the respective organizations' governing boards and executive heads for programme orientation and implementation.

The precepts of the present Constitution recognizing rights for individuals and conferring powers and imposing duties on the public authorities shall not cease to be applicable for lack of appropriate regulations, which shall be supplied having regard to analogous legal tenets, to general principles of law and generally accepted doctrines.

These were the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia and of the Azerbaijani Republic definition of the legal status of Nagorny Karabakh through an agreement based on self determination and conferring on Nagorny Karabakh the highest degree of self rule within Azerbaijan and guaranteed security for Nagorny Karabakh and its entire population, including mutual obligations to ensure compliance by all the parties with the provisions of the settlement.

But the central government remains reluctant to make significant changes to the revenue sharing model, wary not only of the effects on its coffers, but also of conferring more authority on local officials. Moreover, they doubt local governments ability to manage their budgets properly and to use the additional tax revenues efficiently.