Canadian John Peters Humphrey was called upon by the United Nations Secretary-General to work on the project and became the Declaration's principal drafter.

According to Globalizing Family Values, the Declaration's pro-family phrases were the result of the Christian Democratic movement's influence on Cassin and Malik.

Despite the central role played by Canadian John Humphrey, the Canadian Government at first abstained from voting on the Declaration's draft, but later voted in favour of the final draft in the General Assembly.

It is questionable whether the Japanese press were acting on reliable government sources when they first announced the Declaration's rejection.

Since 1947, a major historical re-enactment commemorating the Declaration's signing has been held within the roofless remains of the Abbey church.

At a time when temperance and female property rights were major issues, even many supporters of women's rights believed the Declaration's endorsement of women's suffrage would hinder the nascent women's rights movement, causing it to lose much needed public support.

The date of the Declaration's adoption, May 3, has subsequently been declared as World Press Freedom Day.

The communiqués indicate that progress is being made towards the Bologna Declaration's aim of a European Higher Education Area, however such an area is not universally accepted as being a desirable outcome.

It will readily be seen that in this suggested network ( not materially different from some of the networks in vogue today ) greater emphasis on monitoring is implied than is usually put into practice.

Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.

and poetry, with all its emphasis on the passions, encourages the audience to give way to emotion.

A variety of data are assembled to bear upon such alleged changes as diminished puritan morality, work-success ethic, individualism, achievement, lessened emphasis on future-time orientation in favor of sociability, moral relativism, consideration and tolerance, conformity, hedonistic present-time orientation.

He sees evidence of fair winds for the ten-year Alliance for Progress plan with its emphasis on social reforms.

Heels place emphasis on the long legged silhouette.

but with the growth of state and federal fiscal aid, the emphasis on equalization, and the state-local sharing of responsibility for certain important functions, this is no longer true.

In support of the emphasis placed by the Department of Defense on instruction in emergency medical care, the Medical Illustration Service developed casualty simulation kits and rescue breathing manikins which are being field tested ; ;

The programs in infrared spectroscopy are undergoing reorientation toward wavelength standards in the far infrared, the application of infrared techniques to solid state studies, and increased emphasis on high resolution instrumentation.

In the first year there should probably be considerable emphasis on teaching projects.

Schnabel's emphasis on structural clarity, his innate rhythmic vibrancy, and impetuous intensity all tend to stamp his reading as a symphonic one.

Like the recent Scheherazade from London ( High Fidelity, Sept. 1961 ), it is successful because emphasis has been placed on good musical and engineering practices rather than on creating sensational effects.

Just as the national and state parks place emphasis on features which are of national or state significance, counties should seek out these features which are distinctive of their area.

Our technical assistance to these countries should place special emphasis on inducing the central governments to assume the role of advisor and guide which at an earlier stage foreign experts assumed in dealing with the central governments.

A program of financial assistance would permit placing emphasis on the national interest in training highly skilled labor.

Personal financial assistance would enable more emphasis to be placed on the interests of the individual.

Where this approach becomes critical, the industry can be expected to put much emphasis on this as evidence of its sincerity in `` resisting '' the wage pressures of a powerful union, requesting tariff relief after it has `` reluctantly '' acceded to the union pressure.

There is no doubt that higher education since World War 2, has moved away from `` pure '' liberal education toward greater emphasis on technology and specialization.

Dickens lays great emphasis on the hands in this scene.

In urethane foams, for example, there has been a definite trend toward the polyether-type materials ( which are now available in two-component rigid foam systems ) and the emphasis is definitely on one-shot molding.

If anti-Semitism was on trial in Jerusalem, why was it not identified, and with enough emphasis to capture the notice of the world press, in its connection with the activities of Eichmann's Department of Jewish Affairs, as exemplified by the betrayal and murder of Jews by non-police and non-party anti-Semites in Germany, as well as in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary??

And the emphasis on nationalism in America is in proportion to the growth of American influence across the world.

The popularity of local color literature before the Spanish-American War, the steady currency of the Lincoln myth, the increased emphasis on the frontier West in our mass media are cases in point.

The keynotes of this style are activism and emphasis on achievements in gaining self-esteem.

On the one hand, the major European nations had to maintain vis-a-vis each other an emphasis upon sovereignty, independence, formal equality -- thus insuring for themselves individually an optimal freedom of action to maintain the `` flexibility of alignment '' that the system required and to avoid anything approaching a repetition of the disastrous Napoleonic experience.

ground of the Eastern Fathers, as in the emphasis he lays on the freedom of the will, the autexousion ( αὐτεξούσιον ), and his imperfect realization of the factor so much more strongly brought out in the West: sin.

Although he was never a Trotskyist, he was strongly influenced by the Trotskyist and anarchist critiques of the Soviet regime, and by the anarchists ' emphasis on individual freedom.

In April, Dubček launched an " Action Programme " of liberalizations, which included increasing freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of movement, with economic emphasis on consumer goods and the possibility of a multiparty government.

Schools are normally self-administered by faculty ; emphasis is placed upon giving individual teachers the freedom to develop creative methods.

Steiner offered counsel on renewing the sacraments of their various services, combining Catholicism's emphasis on the rites of a sacred tradition with the emphasis on freedom of thought and a personal relationship to religious life.

" One is his emphasis on human freedom.

Macaulay's political writings are famous for their ringing prose and for their confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history, according to which the country threw off superstition, autocracy and confusion to create a balanced constitution and a forward-looking culture combined with freedom of belief and expression.

Another reason the Islamic world flourished during the Middle Ages was an early emphasis on freedom of speech, as summarized by al-Hashimi ( a cousin of Caliph al-Ma ' mun ) in the following letter to one of the religious opponents he was attempting to convert through reason:

And it stresses " the full equality and participation of men and women in every sphere of religious life ; an emphasis on ethical conduct above ritual observance ; an affirmation of each individual's freedom to act responsibly in accordance with the dictates of the informed religious conscience ; a pride in combining our Jewish heritage with full participation in the civic life of this country ; and an awareness of our duty not only to the Jewish people and to the State of Israel, but also to the entire human family, each one of whom is created in the Divine image ".

# A specific subset of self-expression values — emancipative values — combines an emphasis on freedom of choice and equality of opportunities.

However, his thematic emphasis on freedom provoked his critics, who charged him with perverting the youth.

Too much emphasis in the common law had been placed on the need to protect the reputation of plaintiffs at the expense of freedom of expression.

The emphasis on freedom was strong enough that the movement avoided developing any ecclesiastical traditions, resulting in a movement that was " largely without dogma, form, or structure.

* The importance of democracy and freedom in everyday life, and the placement of particular emphasis on the freedom of the press and freedom of speech.

Recent improvements in computers has shifted the emphasis to more degrees of freedom, allowing robotic devices that seem more intelligent and more human in their motions.

Montessori education is characterized by an emphasis on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child ’ s natural psychological development, as well as technological advancements in society.

It focuses on the association of training and research, with an emphasis on freedom of curriculum.

In 1968, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia called the Prague Spring took place that included " Action Program " of liberalizations, which described increasing freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom of movement, along with an economic emphasis on consumer goods, the possibility of a multiparty government, limiting the power of the secret police and potentially withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact.