He is also Chair of the Fabian Society, and in 2009 won the prestigious Jenny Jeger award for best Fabian pamphlet, for his publication ' Fairness not Favours: How to re-connect with British Muslims '.

According to Tui ' en Ling ( 推恩令, Order to Expand Favours ), Liu Buhai could become a marquess if Liu An carved a part of Huainan for him as his fief, but Liu An never did so.

2, " Romani "), made them Referendaries of Favours, and after three years of service, Referendaries of Justice, enjoying the privileges of Referendaries and permitting one to assist in the signatures before the Pope, giving all a right to a portion in the papal palace and exempting them from the registration of favours as required by Pius IV ( Const., 98 ) with regard to matters pertaining to the Apostolic Chamber.

Favours can be made with two, three, four or more straws.

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' Sexual Favours ' a new song off the album Death before Dishonour was released in 1987.

Even as he is now, so were you yourselves before till God conferred on you His Favours ( i. e. guided you to Islam ), therefore, be cautious in discrimination.

Favours individual and collective learning processes at all levels of the organization, but does not connect them properly to the organization ’ s strategic objectives.

In 2008 Miquita Oliver along with vinspired. com helped launch Fashion Favours, a collection of reworked fashion items, customised by volunteers from around the UK.

Other states have enacted similar laws through a variety of legal means, including signing and ratifying or otherwise giving effect to key conventions such as the European Convention on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

The Administrative Council is made up of members of the contracting states and is responsible for overseeing the work of the European Patent Office, ratifying the budget and approving the actions of the President of the Office.

The French government recognises the Oïl languages as Languages of France but has been constitutionally barred from ratifying the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

In 2011 two special features marked the growing role of the Munich Security Conference as center of attention of international security policy: European Union's High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton called for the Quartet on the Middle East, consisting of the EU, Russia, the USA and the UN, to meet within the setting of the 2011 Munich Security Conference and during a ceremony on the sidelines of the conference Russia ’ s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exchanged the instruments for ratifying the New START Treaty ( Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ) that entered into force in Munich New START.

France, although a signatory, has been constitutionally blocked from ratifying the Charter in respect of the languages of France.

According to the Charter, AIT would be regarded as an Intergovernmental Organization within six months of the fifth country ratifying the Charter.

A few weeks before the war, he went so far as to pen a letter to every governor asking for their support in ratifying the Corwin Amendment as a means to avoid secession.

These conventions are generally seen as having the force of international treaties for the ratifying countries.

When a convention comes into force as a treaty, it creates a legal obligation for ratifying nations to apply its provisions.

They were also published in book form and became a virtual debater ’ s handbook for the supporters of the Constitution in the ratifying conventions.

Initially Madison did not want to stand for election to the Virginia ratifying convention, but was persuaded to do so because the situation looked so bad.

He wrote Hamilton at the New York ratifying convention, stating his opinion that " ratification was in toto and ' for ever '".

The Constitution does not expressly provide for a deadline on the state legislatures ' or state ratifying conventions ' consideration of proposed amendments.

Although attempts were made during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem Shetland, without success, and Charles II ratifying the pawning in the 1669 Act for annexation of Orkney and Shetland to the Crown, explicitly exempting them from any " dissolution of His Majesty ’ s lands ", they are currently considered as being officially part of the United Kingdom.

At the same time Gediminas privately informed the papal legates at Riga through his ambassadors that his difficult position compelled him to postpone his steadfast resolve of being baptized, and the legates showed their confidence in him by forbidding the neighboring states to war against Lithuania for the next four years, besides ratifying the treaty made between Gediminas and the archbishop of Riga.

However, for most of its existence, it has acted as a nearly powerless rubber-stamp legislature, ratifying decisions that have already been made by the Communist Party of China and the country's executive organs.

" Each state ratifying the OPCAT, according to Article 17, is responsible for creating or maintaining at least one independent national preventive mechanism for torture prevention at the domestic level.

( A parlement was responsible for ratifying the King ’ s edicts.

It is unique among the 27 Amendments of the U. S. Constitution for being the only one to repeal a previous Amendment, and for being the only one to have been ratified by the method of the state ratifying convention.

Although the U. S. Constitution provides two methods for ratifying constitutional amendments, only one method had been used up until that time ; and that was for ratification by the state legislatures of three-fourths of the states.

It is the only amendment to have been ratified by state ratifying conventions, specially selected for the purpose.

In terms of the Worst Forms of Child Labour Recommendation ratifying countries should ensure that forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict is a criminal offence, and also provide for other criminal, civil or administrative remedies to ensure the effective enforcement of such national legislation III ( 12 ) to ( 14 )).

Overall, however, commentators viewed the GLBA “ as ratifying and extending changes that had already been made, rather than as revolutionary .” At least one commentator found the entire GLBA “ unnecessary ” for banks and suggested the OCC had the authority to grant national banks all the insurance underwriting powers permitted to affiliates through the GLBA.

He and one of the authors of the treaty, senior Minnesota senator, Cushman Davis, voted with the majority in ratifying the Treaty of Paris, and is often quoted for saying that:

Chapter X deals with mechanisms for ratifying the Convention, amending it or placing reservations in it, or denouncing it.

In addition to ratifying the Convention, a state party must voluntary submit to the Court's jurisdiction for it to be competent to hear a case involving that state.

By ratifying Buford's defensive plan and engaging his I Corps infantry, Reynolds essentially selected the location for the Battle of Gettysburg for Meade, turning a chance meeting engagement into a massive pitched battle, committing the Army of the Potomac to fight on that ground with forces that were initially numerically inferior to the Confederates that were concentrating there.

Whilst these important events were taking place in the internal politics of France, the final stages in the ratifying of the peace treaty with Germany were being passed through.

The provision permits the requesting judicial officer to " send " judicial documents by postal channels to countries that authorize this usage in ratifying the convention, such as France and Italy.

At Easter 1138 he accompanied his half-brother Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester on an embassy to Paris ratifying a treaty between the English and French kings.

However, by the end of 1938 it became clear that the French government had no intention of ratifying the treaty, partly due to fears that if it relinquished its colonies in the Middle East, it would be outflanked in a war with Nazi Germany that was brewing in Europe.

* What should be considered when ratifying countries determine in terms of Article 3 ( d ) of the Convention what the Worst Form Hazards faced by Children at Work in those countries are ( Article II );