Irrelevance of internal law

This emphasizes such novel family planning concepts as equality between boys and girls and the irrelevance of a baby's sex.

This amounts to what we might call an irrelevance defense Finance theorists cannot be held responsible, since no one in the real world pays attention to them!

We the people have become inured to our own irrelevance when it comes to doing anything significant about anything that matters concerning governance, beyond waiting another four years.

Not surprisingly, the proposal was quickly shelved. Now, with countless private interest groups trying to water it down into irrelevance, the battle will be firmly on the EU s agenda in 2006.

CAMBRIDGE What a difference the crisis has made for the International Monetary Fund. It was just a few months ago that this important but unloved institution, a landmark of post war global economic arrangements, seemed destined to irrelevance.

The Treaty had worked well for 35 years, but unless it was regarded as part of a living, dynamic regime, capable of evolving to match changing realities, it would fade into irrelevance, leaving the world vulnerable and unprotected.

EU lethargy and growing irrelevance in global public affairs owes much to Eurocentric political atavism. One potential benefit of the Copenhagen debacle could be that it forces the Union to wake up to the new world of the twenty first century.

My own efforts to advance the cause of UN reform when I was Australia s foreign minister were about as quixotic and unproductive as anything I have ever tried to do. Overhauling Secretariat structures and processes to reduce duplication, waste, and irrelevance?

Historically, the biggest threat to the IMF has been irrelevance. It was almost made redundant in the 1970s, when the US floated the dollar, only to be saved in 1982 by the Mexican debt crisis, which propelled it into the role of global financial lifeguard.

With political parties driven into irrelevance, parliament turned into a rubber stamp agency, and national television networks taken under government control, public discourse has all but disappeared. Ideas may be voiced, but there's barely any audience, and these utterances don't resonate they die away with no implications or consequences.

Any further impasse any further inaction on the part of the Council, two months after the report of the Commission of Inquiry, would have reduced this august body to a nadir of irrelevance with regard to ending impunity and responding to the protection of human rights and humanitarian law.

Consequently, trafficking in persons needs to be seen and treated accordingly in its entirety as an activity commencing through the commission of certain defined acts but also resulting in an exploitative purpose, while encompassing the means involved for gaining control over the victim, which are crucial to ascertaining the irrelevance of his or her consent.

The shine may have come off the EU, but the gripping scenes from Kyiv s Maidan Square are a powerful reminder of the enduring appeal of Europe s core values. What the EU needs now is an updated external strategy that capitalizes on this allure to bolster its influence, security, and prosperity, thereby halting its slide toward irrelevance.

Just when, as a result of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Parliament gains more power than it has ever had, the risk of it being condemned to irrelevance is greatest. If, reflecting the mood in the member states, the elections result in a fragmented Parliament possibly rendered less representative by low voter turnout paralysis, disaffection, and ineffectiveness are guaranteed.

The Conference of the Parties may wish to consider practical issues in relation to the requirements of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol related to the definition of trafficking in persons, such as the irrelevance of the consent of the victims when the listed means of trafficking were used or the non consideration of such means when children are trafficked.

Just a short time ago, the IMF seemed relegated to a sustained period of irrelevance as it failed to modernize either its euro centric political representation or its arcane government to government lending facilities. Suddenly, the Fund has moved to center stage as the only agency seemingly capable of stemming the vicious downward spiral that is currently seizing emerging market stocks and bonds.

Perhaps the reports were somewhat naïve in omitting any reference to the many rumors in Brazil regarding widespread corruption in relation to the contract (of course, US diplomats may have mentioned these issues elsewhere). Nevertheless, it seems safe to say that Dassault and France will probably win the contract, and that this will be seen as a milestone on the road to US irrelevance in South America.

No organization in the world embodies as many dreams, yet provides so many frustrations, as the United Nations. For most of its history, the Security Council has been the prisoner of great power maneuvering the General Assembly a theater of empty rhetoric the Economic and Social Council a largely dysfunctional irrelevance and the Secretariat, for all the dedication and brilliance of a host of individuals, alarmingly inefficient.

Similar studies by Robert Gordon of Northwestern University and by Glenn Rudebusch and John Williams of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank point to the same conclusion about the role of short term unemployment and the irrelevance of long term unemployment in the inflation process. While not all researchers agree with this analysis, I think the evidence is strong enough to represent a warning to the Fed and to market participants.

Only an increase in the number of permanent and non permanent seats can remedy the representation deficit within the Security Council and adapt it to the realities of the twenty first century. If new members and regions are not offered a seat at the table, the Council will face increasing irrelevance and the world, more than ever in need of effective conflict resolution, will be far worse off.