Its position as the Asia-Pacific gateway resulted in the settlement of the province by people of Asian descent, making it one of the most diverse and multicultural areas of Western North America, as well as helping start trade, cultural and diplomatic relations between Canada and the Asia-Pacific region.

Its major functions include facilitating trade negotiations and handling trade related matters, inter-government relations with foreign governments ; the promoting of investment in Hong Kong ; and liaising with the media and business community.

Its relations with Western countries are generally friendly, although current political and economic instabilities are often blamed on Western activities ( e. g. colonialism, paternalistic engagement and post-colonial resource exploitation ).

Its news stories focus on corporations, lobbying, and public relations, as well as economic, environmental, and transparency issues.

Its international relations historically have been guided by the principles of nonintervention, multilateralism, respect for national sovereignty, and reliance on the rule of law to settle disputes.

Its articles are considered a cornerstone of modern international relations.

Its most important achievements were the registration at its eleventh sitting ( 9 December 1516 ) of the abolition of the pragmatic sanction, which the popes since Pius II had unanimously condemned, and the confirmation of the concordat between Leo X and Francis I, which was destined to regulate the relations between the French Church and the Holy See until the French Revolution.

Its properties may include its redness, its size and its composition, while its relations may include " on the table ", " in the room " and " being bigger than other apples ".

Its unconventional views on religion and relations between the sexes led to much controversy.

Its relations with Iceland are very close due to the cultural bond the two nations share.

Its purpose was to strengthen relations among the three most industrially advanced regions of the capitalist world.

Its membership consists mainly of the intelligentsia, and it espouses Christian values, nonviolence, pluralism, private property, and peaceful relations among ethnic groups.

Its duties include submitting draft laws, decrees, and other bills to the National Assembly and the Council of State ; drafting state plans and budgets and implementing them following the National Assembly's approval ; managing the development of the national economy ; organizing national defense activities and assuring the preparedness of the armed forces ; and organizing and managing the state's foreign relations.

Its public relations department designs all posters and print materials ( which are catalogued and archived by the Lancaster Historical Society ) and maintains a website that allows users to browse theatre history, check audition times, and purchase tickets.

Its major goals were promoting democracy outside Peru, addressing the struggle against poverty, encouraging economic development in the borderlands, reducing arms spending in the region, strengthening relations with Asia-Pacific countries, and integrating with the Andean Community of Nations.

Its graduate program in architecture accepts about 15 students each year, and it accepts about 4 – 5 doctoral students, focusing on subjects such as architectural theory and philosophy, bio-climate and energy conscious design, morphology, computer application, person-environment relations, housing, architectural history, and urban design.

Its external relations office is in Washington, DC.

Its large number of speakers, plus its worldwide presence, have made English a common language for use in such diverse applications as controlling aircraft, developing software, conducting international diplomacy, and business relations.

Its second and more serious problem is to establish proper relations with Moscow.

Its French-speaking equivalent is Ecolo ; both parties maintain close relations with each other.

Its primary interests were related to industrial relations and foreign policy.

Its relations with the Maiwandwal cabinet were close and cordial, and it gave full support to the government's efforts to achieve national financial stability.

Its website also carries links to a number of organisations with whom it says it has " friendly relations ", among them the Débat Militant / Democratie Revolutionnaire tendency in the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire, Liaisons, Convergences Révolutionnaires and mondialisme. org in France, the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq and Workers ' Left Unity Iran.

Its reconnection has been seen as part of the general thawing in the relations between North and South in the early part of this century.

Its windows glowed with lamplight.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.

Its growth continues steadily on a par with past growth ; ;

Its truth is illustrated by the skill, sensitivity, and general expertise of the English professor with whom one attends the theatre.

Its early morning patrons were coachmen, who fortified themselves for the day with that delicacy.

Its synthesis has not been demonstrated in cell-free systems, nor has its synthesis by systems with intact thyroid cells in vitro been unequivocally proven.

Then in 2 we show that any line involution with the properties that ( A ) It has no complex of invariant lines, and ( B ) Its singular lines form a complex consisting exclusively of the lines which meet a twisted curve, is necessarily of the type discussed in 1.

Its poverty shows up immediately when compared with Tiepolo, where the rococo rises to painting of extraordinary profundity and power.

Its lovely seventeenth-century ceiling frescoes, as well as the huge guards room with a tremendously high and beautifully carved wooden ceiling, can be seen Sundays ( 11:00 to 12:00 noon ).

Its boundaries had nothing to do with geography or ethnic groupings ; ;

Its size is determined by its function as a glycogen and fat storage unit, and may change with the seasons as these reserves are built or used up.

Its body is stout with an arched back and is sparsely covered with coarse hairs.

Its domain is the powerset of A ( with the empty set removed ), and so makes sense for any set A, whereas with the definition used elsewhere in this article, the domain of a choice function on a collection of sets is that collection, and so only makes sense for sets of sets.

Its symbol Ac is also used in abbreviations of other compounds that have nothing to do with actinium, such as acetyl, acetate and sometimes acetaldehyde.

Its intent was to provide the basis for discussions of reunion with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches, but it had the ancillary effect of establishing parameters of Anglican identity.

Its chemical and physical properties are so similar to that of natural amethyst that it can not be differentiated with absolute certainty without advanced gemnological testing ( which is often cost-prohibitive ).

Its total length from its source to its junction with the Rhine comprises about 295 km ( 183 miles ), during which distance it descends, draining an area of, including the whole of central Switzerland.

Its residents were removed to settle on the Aventine Hill in Rome as new citizens, following the Roman traditions from wars with the Sabines and Albans.

Its connection with Ares, perhaps based on a false etymology, is purely etiological myth.

Its fur changes colour with the seasons: in the winter it is white to blend in with snow, while in the summer it is brown.