Sentence examples for convention to certain from inspiring English sources

I believe that one of the elements, one of our possible fears in relation to this Laeken declaration, is that it does not commit the members of the Convention to certain closed questions, or in any event does not allow all the issues which are vital to the future of Europe to be dealt with.

Not only had it come up, but the decision had already been made to deny the protections of the Geneva Conventions to certain prisoners.

It is known that the Bush administration consciously disapplied the Geneva conventions to certain detainees in Iraq, to decide that some individuals – alleged "terrorists – had no rights at all under Geneva or international laws.

Lewis gives a further definition of agents following a convention to a certain degree if only a certain percentage of the agents actually conform to the coordination equilibrium corresponding to the convention.

It is a world that is bound, like British common law, to tradition, to convention, to a certain understanding of the way things are done.

All bills of lading covered by the convention are subject to certain standard clauses defining the risks assumed by the carrier, which are absolute and cannot be altered by contrary agreement, and the immunities the carrier can enjoy, unless the parties agree otherwise.

The initial (1996) use of convention was limited to certain elements such as bond to represent the different values that different communities might use.

The relevant U.S. legislation is the 1983 Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (CCPIA, or CPIA), which allows the U.S. government to respond to requests from other states party to the UNESCO convention to impose import restrictions on certain classes of archaeological or ethnographic material.

Computer scientists and others have teamed up to persuade the 117 state parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) to study the risks of allowing intelligent weapons to decide which humans to attack.

Among ICAO members, Article 27 of the Chicago Convention provides that, subject to certain conditions, aircraft of the contracting states on an international flight are exempt from seizure or detention on patent claims in the territory of other contracting states, without having to deposit a security.

Not long after that, after White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales called parts of the Geneva Conventions "quaint," President Bush determined that provisions of the Geneva Conventions did not apply to certain detainees.