Certain civil servants were extremely passive in their dealings with China, he said.

Fine Gael supported civil unions for same-sex couples from 2003, voting for the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Bill 2010, and the party approved a motion at its 2012 Ard Fheis to prioritise the consideration of same-sex marriage in the upcoming constitutional convention.

In April 2011, the same month in which the first Irish civil partnerships took place under the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, Irish state broadcaster RTE broadcast a 45-minute radio documentary about the lives of Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby entitled " An Extraordinary Affair ".

Certain senior civil service positions, including some heads of diplomatic missions and executive agencies are filled by political appointees.

He declared the legislation ( Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 ), which passed into law in July 2010 as " one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation to be enacted since independence.

Civil partnerships in Ireland, granted under the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, give same-sex couples rights and responsibilities similar, but not equal to, civil marriage.

Certain foreign partnerships and same-sex marriages are recognised as civil partnerships since 13 January 2011.

Certain privacy advocates have raised concerns regarding potential abuse of the VeriChip, with some warning that adoption by governments as a compulsory identification program could lead to erosion of civil liberties.

Certain expediencies were taken within the existing structure of the Federal government, such as conscription and other violations of civil liberties, and the internment and later dispersal of Japanese-Americans.

Certain other civil decorations may be authorized for wear on U. S. military uniforms, upon approval of the military service departments.

Certain Loa display very distinctive behaviour by which they can be recognized, specific phrases, and specific actions.

Certain enemies can perform particular actions.

Certain actions in trick-taking games with three or more players always proceed in the same direction.

Certain human behaviours, especially actions like the fingering in musical performances, are very complex and require many interconnected neural networks where information can be transmitted across multiple brain regions.

Certain bacterial actions are known to be capable of breaking down stone to form this semiliquid " milk ".

Certain enemies ( including Melkhior's cauldron itself ) will attack Sabreman when a werewulf, making the timing of certain actions crucial.

Certain actions in LSL require permissions:

Certain actions, such as capturing, diving, or loading may only be performed at certain instances throughout the game.

Certain that basic and applied research, technological development and entrepreneurship are continuous, UBB promotes several technological and services transfer actions, promoting association and the generation of multidisciplinary networks, through research and development centers, and liaison with public and private sectors.

Certain actions, such as sneaking past a guard post, must be timed carefully to succeed.

Certain actions of federal agencies must be preceded by the NEPA process.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

Certain drawing methods or approaches, such as " doodling ," other informal kinds of drawing, and the surrealist method of " entopic graphomania ", in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots, may or may not be considered part of " drawing " as a " fine art ".

" Certain joint policy and executive bodies were created between Northern Ireland, the part of the island that remained in the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, and these were given executive authority.

Certain, often more expensive keyboards have a diode between each intersection, allowing the keyboard microcontroller to accurately sense any number of simultaneous keys being pressed, without generating erroneous ghost keys ..

Certain types of world lines ( called geodesics of the spacetime ) are the shortest paths between any two events, with distance being defined in terms of spacetime intervals.

Certain araphid species have been documented as anisogamous and are, therefore, considered to represent a transitional stage between centric and pinnate diatoms.

Certain intriguing similarities between the Etchemin list and Wampanoag might suggest that languages closely related to Wampanoag might have been spoken as far north as the coast of Maine in the precontact period.

Certain specific features of the interaction potential between scattered atoms and surface can be extracted by analyzing the experimentally determined angular distribution and cross sections of the scattered particles.

Certain drawing methods or approaches, such as " doodling " and other informal kinds of drawing such as drawing in the fog a shower leaves on a bathroom mirror, or the surrealist method of " entopic graphomania ", in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots, may or may not be considered as part of " drawing " as a " fine art.

Certain episodes from the life of Abraham have been more heavily detailed in Islamic text, such as the arguments between Abraham and the evil king Nimrod, the near-sacrifice of his son, and the story of Hagar and Ishmael, which Muslims commemorate when performing pilgrimage in Mecca.

Certain breeds of sheep produce large amounts of lanolin, and the extraction can be performed by squeezing the sheep's harvested wool between rollers.

Certain sounding rockets, such as the Black Brant X and XII, have an apogee between ; the maximum apogee of their class.

Certain stylizations have become fixed conventions in art ; an agreement between artist and viewer that is understood and undebated.

Certain track upgrades ( e. g. passing sidings, replacing track to increase operating speeds ) between Richmond and Norfolk that are necessary to enable this extension are being funded jointly by Norfolk Southern and DRPT.

Certain rebels later went on to join that Party, such as Christopher Gill and Richard Body, with Roger Knapman serving as their leader between 2002 and 2006.

Certain similarities between Hattic and both Northwest ( e. g., Abkhaz ) and South Caucasian ( Kartvelian ) languages have led to assumptions by some scholars about the possibility of a linguistic block stretching from central Anatolia to the Caucasus.

Certain authorised agencies, with court permission, may have access to the Gender Recognition Register showing the links between these certificates, but the link will be invisible to the general public.

Certain countries ( e. g. France and Germany ), distinguish between leaving the company of one's own free will, in which case the person isn't entitled to unemployment benefits and leaving a company voluntarily as part of a reduction in labour force size, in which case the person is entitled to them.

Certain interactions between locks can lead to error conditions such as deadlock, livelock, and priority inversion.

Certain developments, such as the acquisition of lands from Arab owners for Jewish settlements, leading to the eviction of the fellaheen from the lands which they cultivated as tenant farmers, aggravated the tension between the parties and caused the Arab population in the region of Palestine to feel dispossessed of their lands.

Certain third-person omniscient modes are also classifiable as " third person, subjective " modes that switch between the thoughts, feelings, etc.

Certain NOAA Weather Radio stations, however, have been allowed to insert the word " in " between the call sign and the city of license ( e. g. " This is KEB98 in Buffalo and WWG32 in Little Valley ").

Robert Draper's Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush recounts a conversation in late summer 2002 between Armey and Cheney.

Certain Canadian jurisdictions have pay equity legislation while others do not, hence the necessity of distinguishing between pay equity and pay equality in Canadian usage.