And the international convention targeting discrimination against women condemns "any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women … on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms" (CEDAW, Article 1).
The report accused the Israeli Army and Palestinian militants of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity and concluded that Israel gravely breached the Fourth Geneva Conventions by targeting civilians, a finding later retracted by its chairman Richard Goldstone but not before Israel suffered a major diplomatic and public relations setback.
By convention, the target corresponding to positive coherence is target 1 (T1) while the other is target 2 (T2).
Bachmann and fellow activists from the Maple River Education Coalition, a group with a fairly conspiratorial view of the government — former governor Jesse Ventura once compared the group to people who believe aliens are about to land — packed the convention and targeted moderate incumbent Republican who had failed to vote to repeal a state education law known as Profile of Learning.
The need to expand drug and violence prevention efforts in Detroit is particularly acute and it's time the legislature provide Detroit with its fair share of the hotel and alcohol sales convention tax targeting prevention of drug use and violence.
Unscrupulous sellers can get around the Basel Convention, which targets nonsalvageable items, by labeling e-waste as goods to be resold or donated.
For satire has always taken as its target conventions, sentiments and injustices that are universally recognizable and complacently accepted, and not at all hidden phenomena that have to be roughly revealed.
Research (e.g., Bardovi-Harlig, Hartford, Mahan-Taylor, Morgan, & Raynolds 1991; Cutting, 2008; Huang, 2010) suggests that language learners need pragmatic instruction to gain exposure to samples of social, cultural, and discourse conventions of the target language.
The Police Department objected vehemently to any constraints on its security tactics for the convention, a possible target for terrorist attack.
While both major parties' conventions have become targets of protests, the Republican gatherings have involved larger demonstrations and resulted in numerous lawsuits by people who have said that they were wrongly arrested.
Still, he anticipates the convention being a target for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which aim to overwhelm servers with traffic so that they can't function properly.
