Sentence examples for harmonisation from inspiring English sources

Charlotte Powell, a London-based barrister and chair of the Extradition Lawyers Associationnotesthatthet the desire to harmonise procedural rules has outstripped the harmonisation of substantive elements.Moreover, the grounds on which a court may refuse extradition still vary sharply country by country.

And the answer to that, he says, is not tax harmonisation but reform of the welfare state.Tax harmonisers, however, have another argument up their sleeves.

How do you work against the financialisation and managerialism that has seeped into the university, forcing us to prioritise 'rendement' (efficiency), harmonisation, and profit, rather than creativity, education, and critical thinking?

"Measures considered included the possibility of joint policing in a defined area along both sides of the Irish border, and the harmonisation of law enforcement procedures as between Northern Ireland and the Republic," the government papers reveal.

This week Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve and now chairman of the foundation that governs the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), a body which oversees the harmonisation of accounting rules worldwide, agreed to chair a committee set up by Andersen to recommend reforms.

Officially, and to the bafflement of fellow European Socialists and British Conservatives alike, Mr Fabius believed that the text was too liberal economically and not social enough, and did too little to integrate Europe in areas such as tax harmonisation.

The constitution provides for the harmonisation of criminal law and sentencing for certain serious crimes with cross-border implications, such as corruption and drug-trafficking.

And many want to extend the notion of fiscal-policy harmonisation, the better to prevent "tax competition" and achieve a "fair" distribution of taxes between capital and labour.

SIR —The harmonisation and alignment commitments you admonish donors for failing to implement are no panacea.

Given the antics of Mr Sarkozy and Mrs Merkel, can anyone blame Mr Kenny for declaring that the CCCTB is the "back door" to tax harmonisation?Punch or parry?Mr Kenny should fight for Ireland's right to set its own tax policies.

In Germany, where it was until recently a taboo phrase, it means something like the harmonisation of rigour.