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In opposition to the German submissions, the United States argued that the Vienna Convention did not grant rights to individuals, only to states ; that the convention was meant to be exercised subject to the laws of each state party, which in the case of the United States meant subject to the doctrine of procedural default ; and that Germany was seeking to turn the ICJ into an international court of criminal appeal.
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The projected union initially aroused great opposition: he did not consult with his father, who had been on vacation in Karlovy Vary and making arrangements to secure the hand of a German princess for his son, or his Prime Minister Dr. Vladan Đorđević, who was visiting the Paris Universal Exhibition at the time of the announcement.
In 1164 began twenty years of crusades against the Wends, sometimes with the help of German duke Henry the Lion, sometimes in opposition to him.
In this case the identifying letters are derived from German for ' together ' and ' in opposition to ', respectively.
The Imperial German Cavalry, while as colourful and traditional as any in peacetime appearance, had adopted a practice of falling back on infantry support when any substantial opposition was encountered.
Among the important political issues at the time was the deployment of Pershing II IRBMs and nuclear-tipped cruise missiles by the U. S. and NATO on West German soil, generating strong opposition in the general population that found an outlet in mass demonstrations.
The German opposition was in an unenviable position by the late spring and early summer of 1943.
That prompted Winston Churchill to ban any further contact with the German opposition.
When the French tried to impose the French language, German opposition grew in intensity.
Hoover provided aid to the defeated German nation after the war, as well as relief to famine-stricken Bolshevik-controlled areas of Russia in 1921, despite the opposition of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and other Republicans.
This all contributed to growing opposition in the Reichstag to any further expansion, particularly when it was clear that Britain intended to match and exceed any German expansion program.
After the death of Emperor Otto I in 973 Mieszko, like his brother-in-law, Duke Boleslav II of Bohemia, joined the German opposition in support of the attempted imperial succession of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria.
* The RAF was to be " beaten down in its morale and in fact, that it can no longer display any appreciable aggressive force in opposition to the German crossing ".
Carl Maria von Weber established German Romantic opera in opposition to the dominance of Italian bel canto.
The Prussian king, fearing the opposition of the other German princes and the military intervention of Austria and Russia, refused to accept this popular mandate.
As nuncio during the 1920s, he had made unsuccessful attempts to obtain German agreement for such a treaty, and between 1930 and 1933 he attempted to initiate negotiations with representatives of successive German governments, but the opposition of Protestant and Socialist parties, the instability of national governments and the care of the individual states to guard their autonomy thwarted this aim.
Along with perceptions of state and police brutality, and widespread opposition to the Vietnam War, Ohnesorg's death galvanised many young Germans, and became a rallying point for the West German New Left.
German Expressionism had begun before World War I and continued to have a strong influence throughout the 1920s, although artists were increasingly likely to position themselves in opposition to expressionist tendencies as the decade went on.
That the excommunication of Henry IV was simply a pretext for the opposition of the rebellious German nobles is transparent.
At Otto III's funeral on Easter, 1002, in Aachen, the German nobles repeated their opposition to Henry IV.
In 1988 / 89 he was co-editor of the East German underground opposition paper " Ostkreuz ".
Kohl faced stiff opposition from the West German political left and was as well mocked upon for his provincial background, physical stature and simple language.
The Allied troops entered Alcamo without opposition on July 21, 1943, freeing the city from Fascist and German forces.
The first Green Party to achieve national prominence was the German Green Party, famous for their opposition to nuclear power, as well as an expression of anti-centralist and pacifist values traditional to greens.
opposition and submissions
The group made annual Budget submissions representing their opposition to Thatcherite economic views.
Over 5, 000 submissions have been received in opposition to the dairy farming proposals, including from tourism associations, which fear that the industrial agriculture will damage the reputation of the area as well as its ecosystems.
Most submissions did not elaborate on reasons for support or opposition ; 14 specific responses in favour and 513 against did so.
The Fiji Military Forces and the Methodist Church are to make submissions at the meeting, but the secretariat of the Great Council has refused a request from the opposition Labour Party ( FLP ) to make one, ostensibly because of time constraints and on the ground that if they accepted a submission from the FLP, they would have to accept one from every political party.
opposition and United
Franz Boas established academic anthropology in the United States in opposition to this sort of evolutionary perspective.
Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, returned to the armed opposition, serving as the military and political leader of the United Islamic Front ( also known in the West as Northern Alliance ).
Regardless of the opposition, Reagan gave every indication that SDI would not be used as a bargaining chip and that the United States would do all in its power to build the system.
He later became head of Afghanistan National Front ( known in the media as United National Front ), the largest political opposition to Hamid Karzai's government.
In Czechoslovakia, that required a Soviet-backed Czechoslovak coup d ' état of 1948, the brutality of which shocked Western powers more than any event so far and set in a motion a brief scare that war would occur and swept away the last vestiges of opposition to the Marshall Plan in the United States Congress.
The General Conference of the United Methodist Church calls for its bishops to uphold opposition to capital punishment and for governments to enact an immediate moratorium on carrying out the death penalty sentence.
At Young's death in 1877, he was followed by other powerful members, who continued the practice of polygamy despite opposition by the United States Congress.
In the United States, liberalism took a strong root because it had little opposition to its ideals, whereas in Europe liberalism was opposed by many reactionary interests.
The Communist Party of China comprises a single-party state form of government ; however, there are parties other than the CPC within China, which report to the United Front Department of the Communist Party of China and do not act as opposition or independent parties.
Political opposition groups were splintered and the Contras began to experience defections, although United States aid maintained them as a viable military force.
Arrested by the dictatorship shortly after being declared Presidential candidate by his party, the opposition leader escaped from prison and launched the Plan of San Luis Potosí from the United States, in this manner beginning the Mexican Revolution.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Rahman and Nahid Toubia write, doctors in Sudan, Somalia, and Nigeria began to speak out about the health consequences of FGM, and opposition gathered pace during the United Nations Decade for Women ( 1975 – 1985 ).
Similarly, it was presented to various government officials, military and diplomatic, in the United States and in Europe ( 1919 – 1920 ), in opposition to the Russian Revolution, and to influence the terms of the peace settlement which resulted in the Treaty of Versailles.
Material focused on gun rights in opposition to the gun ban was translated from information from the National Rifle Association, much of which focused on US Constitutional discussions focused around the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, the Iranian government enjoyed something of a resurgence in popularity amongst the predominantly Sunni " Arab street ," due to its support for Hezbollah and to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vehement opposition to the United States and his call that Israel shall vanish.
The early United States expressed its opposition to Imperialism, at least that distinct from its own Manifest Destiny, in policies such as the Monroe Doctrine.
In 1823, he announced the United States ' opposition to any European intervention in the recently independent countries of the Americas with the Monroe Doctrine, which became a landmark in American foreign policy.
On February 9, 1861, after Davis resigned from the United States Senate, he was selected to be the provisional President of the Confederate States of America ; he was elected without opposition to a six-year term that November.
President Bakiyev was widely expected to retain his mandate, while the opposition United People's Movement ( OND ) announced on 20 April 2009 that it would field a single candidate – Social Democratic Party leader Almaz Atambayev.
Government opposition to Trade unionism in the United Kingdom was a major factor in economic crises during the 1960s and in particular the 1970s, culminating some would argue in the Winter of Discontent of late 1978 and early 1979, when a significant percentage of the nation's public sector workers went on strike.
Many union members were illegally fired during the 1980s in the United States due to government opposition to unions.
* In the United States, in 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which prohibited newspapers from publishing “ false, scandalous, or malicious writing ” against the government, including any public opposition to any law or presidential act.
The United States downgraded its level of representation in Burma from Ambassador to Chargé d ' Affaires after the government's crackdown on the democratic opposition in 1988 and its failure to honour the results of the 1990 parliamentary election.
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