Sentence examples for conduct of nations from inspiring English sources

The Law of the Sea treaty, which the conference has written, is the most far-reaching & potentially influential agreement on the peacetime conduct of nations ever attempted.

The Law of the Sea is a complex and comprehensive document that, when put into action after the Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982, formalized traditional maritime law and outlined rules for the conduct of nations as it relates to boundaries, deep seabed mining, passage through territorial zones, settlement of international disputes, and marine research, among other topics.

-WALTER BAGEHOT We have the opportunity to forge a new world order, where the rule of law, not the rule of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations.

On issues such as trade, climate change, and human rights, our overarching goal must be to get China to commit to the rules that govern the conduct of nations.

We keep hearing about international regulations, UN condemnations and laws that are supposed to guide the conduct of nations.

Describing the United Nations as "credible" requires a stretch of the imagination and governing the conduct of nations has proven to be vastly unsuccessful.

Critics also fear the reciprocal consequences of permitting American courts to judge the conduct of foreign nations.

The shame here is that the I.O.C. can and has used its considerable leverage to improve the conduct of host nations.

Most of those who oppose George W. Bushs policies do so not out of pacifism or delusions about Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein but out of dismay at the administrations ham-fisted conduct of the nations affairs.

Last month, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested setting up a code of conduct for nations to follow, but that may be more easily said than done.

And certainly not the American people, who today lose a bit more control over the conduct of this nation's foreign policy to unelected, politically unaccountable judges.