Sentence examples for meas from inspiring English sources
They want trade sanctions imposed to enforce MEAs, such as the Kyoto protocol on reducing carbon-dioxide emissions, so as to be beyond challenge at the WTO.
Such an amendment would have to be approved by three-quarters of all WTO members, and opposition from non-signatories to those MEAs would be robust.But there are things governments can do that would make trade freer and the planet cleaner at the same time.
In its report, the WTO rightly argues that environmental issues should be tackled at source rather than by blocking freer trade.Environmentalists also insist that WTO rules need to be changed to accommodate multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).
Of the total of around 200 such MEAs, about 20 either ban trade in certain pollutants or in goods made using them, or permit the use of trade sanctions as tools of enforcement.
In theory, says Mr Jackson, it would be easy to add a paragraph to Article XX to the effect that nothing in the WTO's rules prevents the application of certain MEAs.
When he uttered the words meas ingravescente aetate – "my advanced age" – the journalist knew that she was to witness a historic moment.
Hillary Clinton's mea culpa at the United Nations on Tuesday was supposed to tamp down the scandal over her use of a private email address as secretary of state.
Confronted with this recent outpouring of anti-Thatcher sentiments, I am struck by the strident tones from "wronged" miners and other working people, and a marked absence of any mea culpa.
Its first hurdle is executing a grand political mea culpa, convincing voters that - despite its own excoriating assessments - they were in fact right about Rudd and Labor itself was wrong.
Völler accepted Rijkaard's mea culpa and the incident was later put to bed when the pair agreed to break bread – and spread butter – together for a TV commercial, with both their fees going to charity.
That mea culpa appeared in its daily paper last month, along with the company telling the City that the cash it has set aside to cover the costs of the civil claims had increased from £4m to £12m.
