Other countries, some of which I visited last month, have similar needs.

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

What they have objected to is the attempt of the Russians to make use of the tragedy of Dag Hammarskjold's death to turn the entire U.N. staff from the Secretary down into political agents of the respective countries from which they come.

It must be recognized that countries at different stages of development have very different capabilities of meeting such conditions.

More importantly, several of the more advanced of the less developed countries have found through experience that they must plan their own complex investment programs for at least 5 years forward and tentatively for considerably more than that if they are to be sure that the various interdependent activities involved are all to take place in the proper sequence.

Perhaps the most important incentive for them will be clear evidence that where other countries have done this kind of home work we have responded with long-term commitments.

The Department of Defense appropriation acts for the past several years have contained a rider which limits competitive bidding by firms in other countries on certain military supply items.

The same model car might be available in six or eight countries, yet not two countries will have the same rate either for the daily rate or rate per kilometer driven.

Nevertheless, with foresight and careful planning, some of the more disruptive and dangerous consequences of social change which have troubled other countries passing through this stage can be escaped.

But these countries have made big strides toward developing the necessary human and social overhead capital ; ;

We have every obligation to take seriously their claims to being democratic and free countries ; ;

It follows that any effective policy toward the underdeveloped countries must have a realistically long working horizon.

Finally, if the mission of the Trial was to convict anti-Semitism, how could it have failed to post before the world the contrasting fates of the countries in which the Final Solution was aided by native Jew-haters -- i.e., Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia -- and those in which it met the obstacle of human solidarity -- Denmark, Holland, Italy, Bulgaria, France??

Insuring that the countries have a freedom of choice, he said, was the biggest detriment to the Soviet Union.

In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.

Sometimes, countries have the written language undergo a spelling reform to realign the writing with the contemporary spoken language.

Relations between the two countries have not always been cordial due to the former French government's policy of supporting militant separatists in Angola's Cabinda province and the international Angolagate scandal embarrassed both governments by exposing corruption and illicit arms deals.

Relations between Angola and several Latin American countries, including Mexico, have become of increasing priority due to the geographical proximity and cultural similarities.

Since 1991, several thousand students from 21 countries have come to Achill to study and participate in ongoing excavations.

Armenian exports to EU countries have skyrocketed by 65. 9 percent, making up more than half of all 2010 January to September exports.

Armenia currently does not have diplomatic relations with the following countries:

The thoughts and ideas discussed and refined during this period have profoundly influenced lifestyles and social consciousness up to the present day in East Asian countries.

The decision-making participants are the Consultative Parties and, in addition to the 12 original signatories, include 16 countries that have demonstrated their interest in Antarctica by carrying out substantial scientific activity there.

The friction brake was adjusted according to a rower's weight to give an accurate appraisal of boat-moving ability ( drag on a boat is proportional to weight ). Inferior copies of Harrison's machine were produced in several countries utilising a smaller flywheel and leather straps-unfortunately the leather straps were sensitive to humidity, and the relatively large braking area made results far less accurate than Harrison's machine.

This is a list of countries using proportional representation at national level.

There are also countries – such as Portugal, South Africa, Finland, the Netherlands, and the Republic of Macedonia – that have proportional representation systems without a threshold, although the Netherlands has a rule that the first seat can never be a remainder seat, which means that there is an effective threshold of 100 % divided by the total number of seats.

* Other countries using MMP ; see mixed member proportional representation.

* Mixed-member proportional representation, a voting system used in Germany, New Zealand and other countries

Multi-party systems tend to be more common in parliamentary systems than presidential systems and far more common in countries that utilize proportional representation compared to countries that utilize first past the post elections.

However, some countries, such as New Zealand, have special rules dealing with independents — seats won by these candidates are exempted from the proportional system altogether.

As a member of the National Constituent Assembly which began on February 1, 1987, Franco voted for severance of relations between Brazil and countries that develop a policy of racial discrimination ( as was then the case of South Africa ), the establishment of the writ of mandamus Collective ; 50 % more pay for overtime after a forty hour work-week, the legalization of abortion, the continuous shift of six hours of notice proportional to length of service, the union unity, popular sovereignty, the nationalization of subsoil, the nationalization of the financial system of a limiting the payment of external debt burden and creating a fund to support land reform.

In countries where there is one dominant party and a divided opposition, the proportional seats may be essential for allowing an effective opposition.

* Iraq held its first post-Saddam parliamentary elections in January 2005 under an electoral law providing for compulsory integration of women on the candidates lists, like several European countries with a proportional electoral system.

This occurs only in countries which have an electoral system based on party-list proportional representation.

In developed countries, the level of functional literacy of an individual is proportional to income level and risk of committing crime.

It does not apply to multi-member proportional representation electorates such as exists in Ireland, Ukraine and many European countries.

On 2 October 2009, until 2 January 2010, the World March for Peace and Nonviolence went around the world from New Zealand to Argentina calling for the eradication of Nuclear Weapons, the withdrawal of invading troops from foreign territories, the signing of peace treaties between countries in dispute, progressive and proportional conventional weapons disarmament and the implementation of articles in national constitutions to renounce the use of war as a means to resolve conflicts, such as Article 9 of the Japanese constitution.

In the United States, the largest barter exchange and corporate trade group is TransMedia Barter, founded in 1993, now with representation in various countries.

It maintains diplomatic relations with more than 85 countries, of which 63 have permanent representation in Prague.

In some countries, census data are used to apportion electoral representation ( sometimes controversially – e. g., Utah v. Evans ).

The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions.

* ISO 3166-1, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes, defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.

* ISO 3166-2, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 2: Country subdivision code, defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

* ISO 3166-3, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries, defines codes for country names which have been deleted from ISO 3166-1 since its first publication in 1974.

The US also suggested that representation from communist countries was not truly " tripartite "— including government, workers, and employers — because of the structure of these economies.

Council members are chosen according to a formula designed to ensure equitable representation of countries from various groups, including those engaged in seabed mineral exploration and the land-based producers of minerals found on the seabed.

In many developed countries, these functions have been assumed by the state ; however, the provision of professional training, legal advice and representation for members is still an important benefit of trade union membership.

In various countries, a municipality is the smallest administrative subdivision to have democratically elected representation.

The Fund is managed by an Executive Committee with an equal representation of seven industrialized and seven Article 5 countries, which are elected annually by a Meeting of the Parties.

* ISO 3166-2 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions — Part 2

In some countries, sharia courts, with their tradition of pro se representation, simple rules of evidence, and absence of appeals courts, prosecutors, cross examination, complex documentary evidence and discovery proceedings, juries and voir dire proceedings, circumstantial evidence, forensics, case law, standardized codes, exclusionary rules, and most of the other infrastructure of civil and common law court systems, have as a result, comparatively informal and streamlined proceedings.

From the time of appointment until his death, the Bahá ' í Faith grew from 100, 000 to 400, 000 members, and the countries in which Bahá ' ís had representation went from 35 to 250.

It provided a $ 16. 2 billion line of credit to small and medium businesses ( 34 % more than in 2007 ) and authorized a $ 200 million selective capital increase, of which $ 130 million accounted for new shares which grew the representation of developing countries by 6. 07 % to a total share of 39. 48 %.

In 1919 Liechtenstein and Switzerland signed a treaty under which Switzerland assumes the representation of Liechtenstein interests at the diplomatic and consular level in countries where it maintains a representation and Liechtenstein does not.

In federal countries, such Senators represent the territories, while the other members represent the people at large ( this device is used to allow a federal representation without having to establish a bicameral legislature ); this is the case with St. Kitts and Nevis, Comoros and Micronesia.