It set out to challenge the dominance of U.S.-led global cultural industries by asserting the right of nations to introduce legislation to protect their own cultural production systems -- and to this end asserted that cultural goods are not commodities like any other and may be excepted from various WTO rules.
Most Senate Republicans challenged Ms. Kagan's nomination until the end, asserting that she lacked sufficient experience and had unfairly stigmatized the military by supporting a bar on recruiters at Harvard Law over the military's policy against allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly.
Feinberg's principle reads as follows: "it is always a good reason in support of a proposed criminal prohibition that it would probably be an effective way of preventing serious offense...to persons other than the actor, and that it is probably a necessary means to that end...The principle asserts, in effect, that the prevention of offensive conduct is properly the state's business" (1985, 1).
To that end, the movie asserts that Occupy provided "a huge ray of hope" and credibly posits that its long-term effects may have yet to be seen.
To that end — and although Bergman denies it, asserting that he initiated the reporting on his story and that Barak was initially reluctant to cooperate — his article can probably be read in part as Israel sending the "hold me back" message to the United States.
Lord Malquist, who conducts his life on the principle that the eighteenth century has not yet ended, asserts that all battles are discredited.
Ms. Marsh asserted that ending gender-based violence in Haiti is not going to be a quick fix.
Grocery store owners and managers asserted that ending tobacco sales enhanced the stores' "healthy" image and was a natural fit with the healthy products they sold.
The 1995 Beijing Platform for Action provides us with a clear and politically driven agreement to act to end discrimination, assert and define rights, challenge patriarchal institutions, and bring some coherence to gender sensitive policies, and economic and social policies.
Unlike his friend Nobu's New York spot, Tetsuya's is quiet and unhurried, and the staff actually waits for your conversation to end before asserting its presence -- a welcome custom now out of fashion in most New York restaurants.
To make the case that the oversight should end, Mr. Hoffa asserts that the union is as free of corruption as any large institution.
