In many cases, the date (often later) of the definitive histopathological diagnosis will prevail, in accordance with the international definition of date of diagnosis.
The international definition of water stress is 1,000 cubic metres of usable water per person per year.
"The question is not 'Is Israel the same as South Africa?', it is 'do Israel's actions meet the international definition of what apartheid is?'".
This is written into the 2004 international definition of social work and is central to the British Association of Social Workers' code of ethics.
With the possible exception of the western side of the Cairngorms, there are no national parks in Britain that meet the international definition: places protected mainly for their wildlife and habitats.
"We are trying to figure out how the international definition of a refugee, written half a century ago, should be applied to novel kinds of cases such as domestic violence".
Police claimed that Pentameter used the international definition of sex trafficking contained in the UN's Palermo protocol, which involves the use of coercion or deceit to transport an unwilling man or woman into prostitution.
The exhibition was intended, as Littleton and Sykes put it, to be "one element in an international definition of American reassurance, stability, and enlightenment" — a friendly beacon in the grim aftermath of the war.
(As a parallel, there is no immutable reason territorial waters should be extended miles from the shore, as they do, or 12, as the U.S. claimed during prohibition, but there must be an international definition of territorial waters or we'd all be shooting one another).
Home Office ministers argue that the international definition of an immigrant covers anyone who goes to a country for more than 12 months and that removing them from the net migration statistics would look like the government "fiddling the figures" to meet their 'below 100,000' target.
If we are to achieve the principles set out in our own international definition of social work, we have to look in our own backyard to see how we are contributing to abuse – perhaps through the systems we are operating in, and in neglecting to see the significance of social justice to the people with whom we work.
