While normally the national flag takes precedence over the European flag in the national context, meetings between EU leaders sometimes differ.

Within the context of the European Union's " European Neighbourhood Policy " the EU and Jordan have jointly adopted an Action plan to reinforce their political and economic interdependence, and further implement their current Association Agreement.

The accession of Spain and Portugal to the EU has helped ease some of their periodic trade frictions by putting these into an EU context.

Assessment of the overall importance of the sites in the context of the appropriate biogeographical region and the EU as a whole.

Pro-European is a subjective term applied to a person who supports the idea of European unification ( mainly through the European Union ( EU )) and generally supports further ' deepening ' of European integration, specifically in the context of political argument over the current and future status of the EU and its policies.

According to Mamudu and Studlar, since the adoption of the FCTC in 2003, " shared sovereignty through multilevel governance has become the norm in the tobacco control policy area for EU members, including having one international organization negotiate within the context of another.

The term is also used in context with other countries, like when the Spanish foreign minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos spoke out for a " privileged partnership, offering all the benefits of EU membership, without participation in the institutions " for Israel.

In the context of a loyalty review, membership in a listed organization was meant to raise a question, but not to be considered proof of disloyalty.

The Militia Information Service ( MIS ) contends that gun ownership is a civic duty in the context of membership in the militia,

In May 1990 he repeated his remark in the context of NATO membership while meeting Bush, amazing both the Americans and Germans.

In a membership context, failure to comply with a code of practice can result in expulsion from the professional organization.

These, and many other findings, which suggest that helping behaviour in general, and specifically bystander intervention is more likely in the context of shared group membership can be explained in terms of self-categorization and empathy.

In a cultural context, the term " Deaf " ( written with an upper case D ) refers to cultural membership within a group that is composed mainly, but not exclusively, of people who are clinically deaf and who form a social community with an identity that revolves around deafness and the use of sign languages to communicate.

France also voiced concerns in this regard in the context of Germany's expected membership in the League of Nations.

" Open " in this context means that membership was open to anyone, not merely those attending, or old boys from, a particular institution ( e. g. a school, university or hospital ).

Constantin Argetoianu, the Minister of the Interior in the Alexandru Averescu, Take Ionescu, and Ion I. C. Brătianu cabinets, equated Comintern membership with conspiracy, ordered the first in a series of repressions, and, in the context of trial, allowed for several communist activists ( including Leonte Filipescu ) to be shot while in custody — alleging that they had attempted to flee.

The city is home to a number of service organizations, the best known of which ( in the context of the Flintstones television series ) is the Loyal Order of Water Buffalos, which counts among its membership Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble.

Additionally, if a bonded Company or a bonded individual hired in a war surrenders, they are allowed to leave the zone of battle unmolested and report to a neutral zone, where they will “ get ransomed ,” by the Guild ( meaning saved in some context ), and this is stated as the reason that a bonded Mercenary ( one who actually has a membership with the Mercenaries ’ Guild ) pays their dues.

The contracts are not legally binding, but the agreements have effective power in the context of the novels because any slave, or owner, who violates the contract terms can be ostracized from the secret community of the marketplace — for those whose desires and orientations lead them to membership in that community, being prevented from participating is a very strong motivation to follow the terms of the contracts.

Many cats with such colouration are supposedly present on the island of Malta, which may have given rise to the use of the adjective in this context.

Many cats with such colouration are present in Malta, which may have given rise to the use of the adjective in this context.

Bernard Brandon Scott, a member of the Jesus Seminar, questions the authenticity of the parable's context, suggesting that " the parable originally circulated separately from the question about neighborliness " and that the " existence of the lawyer's question in and, in addition to the evidence of heavy Lukan editing " indicates the parable and its context were " very probably joined editorially by Luke.

In December 2009, in the context of a Cabinet reshuffle, Carcasses left the Opposition and joined Natapei's government, becoming Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of Labour.

Elected officials generally identified as being on the U. S. " left " also joined in strongly condemning the attacks, in this case almost universally without pointing out a context.

Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus transferred their French resistance underground campaign to the context of a cultural revolution and the American beat scene joined the movement.

He joined the Ontario Educational Communications Authority ( later TVOntario ) in the early 1970s as a manager and, in 1974, was assisting with the establishment of its regional councils, when he was told OECA had acquired the broadcast rights to three Ingmar Bergmann films and was asked if he had any ideas on how the station could air them in an educational context.

He joined the Muppet Show family in the series The Jim Henson Hour, in which it was a running joke that, when he was outside his native heartwarming-TV-special context, people found him insufferably cute.

From 1999 to early 2000, Louis joined the short-lived dot-com Boo. com ; when the company failed, he wrote a detailed analysis of the challenges the company had faced, offering some context in terms of running large scale websites, which was widely circulated.

In this context, it is interesting that guitarist Rick Steier, formerly of Kingdom Come, apparently joined the band two and a half years after the recording of the album.

It occurred as part of a series of events during the Lebanese Civil War, in which Palestinians joined the Muslim forces, in the context of the Christian-Muslim divide, and soon Beirut was divided along the Green Line, with Christian enclaves to the east and Muslims to the west.

In 1999, Philips joined the Oxygen alliance, an international consortium of industrial partners within the context of the MIT Oxygen project, aimed at developing technology for the computer of the 21st century.

This joined reference srauta smarta cannot be separated in the context of an orthodox smarta brahmin because he would be expected to follow the sruti and thereby the smritis derived from them.

In this context, several women have joined guerrilla and rebel groups as a way to express their rejection of the situation that they have been forced to live with.

We are already committed to establishing man's supremacy over nature and everywhere on earth, not merely in the limited social-political-economical context we are fond of today.

Thus in a context in which there has been discussion of snow but mention of local conditions is new, dominant stress will probably be on here in it rarely snows here, but in a context in which there has been discussion of local weather but no mention of snow, dominant stress will probably be on snows.

If both George and a piece of information George does not have are prominent in the context, but the idea of telling George is new, then dominant stress will probably be on tell in why not tell George??

Here again, in the written language it is possible to help the reader get his stresses right by using underlining or italics, but much of the time there is simply reliance on his understanding in the light of context.

How does the local realtor see himself in the context of housing restrictions based on race, religion or ethnic attachment??

In the context of larger ethical discussions on moral action and judgment, Buddhism is characterized by the belief that negative ( unhappy ) consequences of our actions derive not from punishment or correction based on moral judgment, but from the law of karma, which functions like a natural law of cause and effect.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

Depending on the context, a Lewis acid may also be described as an oxidizer or an electrophile.

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

In this context, it is pertinent to note that the electronegativity of astatine on the Allred-Rochow scale ( 1. 9 ) is less than that of hydrogen ( 2. 2 ).

The same notation is used with sets to denote cardinality ; the meaning depends on context.

From about 1955 he started to work on sheaf theory and homological algebra, producing the influential " Tôhoku paper " ( Sur quelques points d ' algèbre homologique, published in 1957 ) where he introduced Abelian categories and applied their theory to show that sheaf cohomology can be defined as certain derived functors in this context.

Functionalists like Monroe Beardsley argue that whether or not a piece counts as art depends on what function it plays in a particular context ; the same Greek vase may play a non-artistic function in one context ( carrying wine ), and an artistic function in another context ( helping us to appreciate the beauty of the human figure ).

The phrase " all quiet on the Western Front " has become a colloquial expression meaning stagnation, or lack of visible change, in any context.

In Brazil, a number of modern religious movements based on the use of ayahuasca have emerged, the most famous of them being Santo Daime and the União do Vegetal ( or UDV ), usually in an animistic context that may be shamanistic or, more often ( as with Santo Daime and the UDV ), integrated with Christianity.

) Similarly, when Jewish families and larger groups sing traditional Sabbath songs known as zemirot outside the context of formal religious services, they usually do so a cappella, and Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations on the Sabbath sometimes feature entertainment by a cappella ensembles.

However, there is limited evidence that mistletoe's effects on the immune system help the body fight cancer .... At present, the use of mistletoe cannot be recommended outside the context of well-designed clinical trials.

Green ( Old World ) archaeoastronomers rely heavily on statistics and are sometimes accused of missing the cultural context of what is a social practice.

Depending on the context, jumping may also involve capturing or conquering an opponent's game piece.