For example, the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) unanimously adopted by all UN member states in 2001 reflect the basic thrust of states' human rights responsibilities to enable the realization of social and economic rights such as health, both through domestic and international action.
The project, which was to have been built by a Malaysian gambling company at the Aqueduct racetrack near Kennedy Airport, was a signature initiative of Mr. Cuomo's and a central thrust of his State of the State address in January.
"It appears the court has upheld the major thrust of our state's statute," Mr. Deal said, "that states have the right to assist in enforcing federal immigration law".
This study was motivated by the growing debate concerning the large-scale exclusion of rural households from the ambit of formal credit delivery channels, despite the continuous thrust of the state towards inclusive growth.
Its thrust, reflecting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's view at the time, was that the U.S. should limit its ambitions to defending Iraq from Al Qaeda and Iranian-backed extremists, and to preventing sectarian violence from spinning out of control; the paper did not make a case for a surge.
Round another corner of the park, and the great limestone thrust of the Empire State Building strides into view.
Sugar-pale Baroque villas sprawl over thrusts of land.
Though ostensibly protecting in-state businesses, Massachusetts has potentially exposed them to the same kind of onerous, out-of-state intrusions that it has thrust upon Town Fair Tire.
In announcing "personalised learning" as a major thrust for the future, the minister of state for school standards, David Miliband, prompted further development of work that has been underway in the better schools for some time.
If Oklahoma's senate passes the bill, it will be yet another step toward religious fascism -- the use of state power to thrust a certain kind of religion on everyone.
