It appears to have lost the capacity to plan good urban places, and is supine in the face of proposals for low-grade development backed by repeated appeals.
But the protection that the agreement offers increasingly relies on good will as much as international law, as shown by the determination of some nations to continue fishing in Antarctic waters, in the face of proposals to ban the practice by establishing reserves and protected zones.
Instead, the commission president, José Manuel Barroso, shelved it in the face of contradictory proposals from two of his senior colleagues at the environment and industry departments.
Meeting for the first time in early February, the Panel was told by its chair and co-chairs that NIH's need for guidance in the face of pending proposals meant that it had approximately six months including five one- to two-day meetings each month in Washington in which to complete its work.
"In the face of that proposal, the union is now saying that instead of further negotiations the best thing to do was walk out of mediation, pretend to no longer be a union, and file a lawsuit," Aiello said.
In the early 1990s, Mr. Klein represented a group of the Northern Dispensary's neighbors who were trying to come up with alternate uses for the building in the face of a proposal to house homeless people with AIDS on the site.
Then, in the face of a proposal for shareholders to hold an extraordinary meeting to compel the NYSE Euronext board to consider the rival bid - a right that the shareholders don't have without the consent of the board - the directors turned them down.
In 1981 when he resigned in the face of Reagan administration proposals to make the Voice of America a more partisan supporter of United States policies.
With coal, direct action had an absolutely critical effect in awakening the Government to the contradictions between what it was saying about the need for carbon reductions and its apparent complacency in the face of power industry proposals for new coal-burning power stations".
"Ofcom was at pains yesterday to refute the suggestion that it has rolled over in the face of ITV's proposals for cuts, but today's report confirms that Ofcom has rolled over," said the Bectu assistant general secretary, Luke Crawley.
He accused the first minister of being "flippant" in the face of such serious proposals and warned of the dangers of a "crisis situation" developing over the next five months.
