Many countries ratified the Convention very soon after it was adopted and others continued to ratify or accede to it, making it the most widely ratified human rights treaty.
Though she balked somewhat at her makeover ("I hate this Ivana look," she is said to have protested at one point, as her hair was turned ever lighter), she acceded to it; it was, after all, only a more successful version of what she'd undertaken in 1982.
If that is Khamenei's intent, would it be wrong for Obama to accede to it?
If your ball donation scheme is as advantageous to the driving-range owners as you maintain -- and it certainly seems to be -- then surely they will accede to it when you ask permission, which you must do.
Given that the optional protocol seeks to enhance detainee patients' rights, the U.S. medical community (and the wider medical community) should regard it as their ethical duty to pressure the U.S. government to accede to it.
This was an un-Christian demand, and it would be an un-Christian act on Wadsworth's part to accede to it.
This seems especially clear in cases where a benefactor requests a reasonable favor from a beneficiary, and the beneficiary refuses to accede to it (Bruton 2003).
If a coercer lacks the power needed to do these things, it may be irrational for the coercer to execute his threat if defied, and hence frequently irrational for the coercee to accede to it.
In effect, he took the position that only the states that shared a border with Pakistan could choose to accede to it.
Unfortunately, at the time that the "troika" -- the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund -- first included this irresponsible demand in the international financial program for Greece, the country's authorities had no choice but to accede to it.
