"The commission recalls that a legally stable environment, based on the rule of law, including respect for media freedom, democratic principles and fundamental rights, is also the best guarantee for citizens' trust and confidence of partners and investors," it said.
"The commission recalls that a legally stable environment, based on the rule of law, including respect for media freedom, democratic principles and fundamental rights, is also the best guarantee for citizens' trust and confidence of partners and investors," the European Commission's warning said.
As probably the most valuable horse owned by the bankrupt and legally entangled Zayat Stables, Eskendereya's value was being counted on as a sizable down payment to his principal creditor Fifth Third Bank, which in effect owns if not controls him.
Combine sumo's financial problems with its lack of transparency — stables are legally treated as the personal property of their stable masters and are subjected to minimal oversight by the ministry of sports and education — and the result was an environment that made the sport all too vulnerable to the underworld, the experts say.
"If I had seen gay men in loving, stable and legally recognised public relationships of the sort my parents were in, I would have found it easier to come out.
With the Loi Sauvadet, the government made it clear that now, after 6 years on short-term contracts, a scientist's most recent employer was legally obligated to offer stable employment, explains Alain Trautmann, a biologist at the Institut Cochin in Paris.
The Fed is legally required to try to keep prices stable and maximize employment.
Although officially independent, the Federal Reserve, in wielding the power of the printing press, which enables it to manipulate interest rates and influence broader financial conditions, is legally obligated to pursue two potentially conflicting targets: "stable prices" and "maximum employment".
According to Fasouliotis and Schenker most professional teams in the various countries they studied in 1999 recommended that MAR be restricted to heterosexual couples who are legally married or at least living in a stable relationship.
A stable net-asset value may not be legally guaranteed, but shareholders treat it that way.
Foundation spokesman Ged Kenslea said the organization supports legally sanctioning same-sex marriage because it encourages more stable relationships among gay men as well as behavior that will prevent the spread of HIV.
