Sentence examples for intergovernmental arrangements from inspiring English sources

To use the jargon, big countries often prefer "intergovernmental" arrangements in which they hold more sway, while small ones feel less bullied under the "community method".

The current system is based on a completely unsatisfactory arrangement that leaves important standards to protect health to be set by complex intergovernmental arrangements involving commonwealth, state and territory governments.

Do they simply lie in the organisational capacity of implementing arms of government, or rather in the design of the country's intergovernmental arrangements, or perhaps both?" In his contribution, Trevor Manuel, Minister in the Presidency responsible for the National Planning Commission, describes how the National Development Plan focuses on children.

Of course an intergovernmental arrangement is not without risks but we did not want to see that imbalance hard-wired into the treaty.

Accordingly, the change of government and promises contained within the reforms also signified a new era by establishing intergovernmental agreement for nationally consistent policy measures aimed at unifying existing multi-layered administrative and regulatory arrangements (Cheeseman and Torr 2009).

"The U.N. is an intergovernmental organization.

NATO is by nature a political and military intergovernmental organisation.

Convenio Andres Bello is an international intergovernmental organization including Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic and Venezuela.

The political parties have made economic development their principle objective, seeking to achieve this at least in part by exerting greater control over natural resources and forging better arrangements with outside enterprises, governments and intergovernmental institutions.

This paper examines a purportedly successful case, the New York City watershed governance arrangement, to identify how safeguards against intergovernmental opportunism promote lasting cooperation.

The arrangement born at Bretton Woods and used for nearly three decades was not a true gold standard, as it was entirely intergovernmental and the private holding of gold was illegal in America.