And they point out that the US, fierce upholder of the 1983 moratorium, undermines its moral position by allowing indigenous Inuit to hunt bowhead whales in the Arctic.
Already the trade embargo is widely breached even, where Turkey is involved, with a nod and wink from the United States, supposedly its fiercest upholder.
But for the Tories, for Mrs Thatcher and her followers, in put political calculation before principle is a tragedy for all those who hope to see Toryism as the main upholder of real democratic majority rule.
The arrest of Mr Gusinsky, no angel despite his courage as chief upholder of a free press, reeks of despotism.
This septic isle It's the politics, stupid Apocalypse perhaps a little later ReprintsYet India's huge potential to be a force for stability and an upholder of the rules-based international system is far from being realised.
The great upholder of laws at home was happy to trash them abroad, whether invading Grenada or mining Nicaraguan harbours.
Cajetan was an ardent upholder of the Dominican ideal, especially with regard to poverty and the study of theology.
Nicholas, a strict upholder of Rome's primacy of jurisdiction, ordered an examination that led to Rothad's restoration in 865 by using, probably for the first time, the False Decretals, a 9th-century collection of revolutionary but partially forged documents that, in part, maintained bishops' independence against the encroachments of archbishops who were attempting to extend their power.
Efforts were made to view him as a court poet and an upholder of monarchy and religion rather than as an enemy of superstition and a champion of popular education.
As it is, he remains to this day, in addition to his recognized stature as an expert on Traditions, one of the most venerated fathers of Islām, a staunch upholder of Muslim orthodoxy.
He was in fact a firm upholder of autocratic principles, sincerely convinced both of his duty to maintain the God-given autocratic power he had inherited and of Russia's unreadiness for constitutional or representative government.
