Sentence examples for right of transit from inspiring English sources

"How are we going to supply Nabucco if we have no right of transit in Turkey?" asks Aliyev, rhetorically.

"They affirmed the right of transit agencies to carry out this kind of a security program," Mr. Romney said.

It involves a package of rights, such as the right to graze and to hunt, the right of access to sacred sites, and the right of transit.

In Ottawa, a spokesman for foreign minister Stephane Dion said no automatic right of transit passage existed in the waterways of the Northwest Passage.

As a result, all ships regardless of their nationality benefit from the right of transit in line with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and international maritime customs".

The 1982 treaty established a new right of transit passage for the purpose of continuous and expeditious transit in straits used for international navigation between one part of the high seas or exclusive economic zone and another.

Meanwhile, Mexico would do well to try to think more creatively about how to provide rights of transit while attempting to regulate the flow through its southern back door.

The members of Local 100 voted in a new set of officers in 2000 largely because they were tired of leaders who demonstrated their willingness to bow to the M.T.A., the mayor and the governor by giving away the hard-won benefits and rights of transit workers.

Labor officials say changes in retirement benefits contained in the reform law undermine the collective bargaining rights of transit workers.

All free seagoing nations should exercise their rights of transit, general ship passage, and the conduct of military exercises in international waters.

Lafayette was taken prisoner by the Austrians near Rochefort, when another former French officer, Jean-Xavier Bureau de Pusy, asked for rights of transit through Austrian territory on behalf of a group of French officers.