In 1989, the Basel Convention was opened for signature with the aim of preventing the export of hazardous waste from wealthy to developing nations for disposal.

After the stated aim of the National Convention to export revolution, the guillotining of Louis XVI of France, and the French opening of the Scheldt, a European military coalition was formed and set up against France.

Although political organizations had existed in the British colony, the United Gold Coast Convention ( UGCC ) was the first nationalist movement with the aim of self-government " in the shortest possible time.

Antarctic toothfish is managed by the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCAMLR ), which has limited fishing to a precautionary catch level in the Ross Sea ; fishing takes place with the aim of collecting sufficient biological and stock size information to effectively manage this fishery in the future.

" An Act to amend the law relating to firearms and other weapons and ammunition ", its main stated aim was to enable the government to control the overseas arms trade and so fulfil their commitment to the 1919 Paris Arms Convention.

Its aim is to " give further effect " in UK law to the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights.

Having been approached by King Edward VII during the Russo-Japanese War with a proposal of alliance, he made it a primary aim of his policy when he became Foreign Minister, feeling that Russia, weakened by the war with Japan, needed another ally besides France ; this resulted in the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907.

Vanguard had traditionally opposed the concept of compulsory power sharing with nationalists enshrined in the Sunningdale Agreement, but after the failure of Sunningdale, the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention was set up to provide a forum with the aim of finding a new settlement for Northern Ireland.

An additional protocol to the Convention entered into force on 1 April 2004 with the aim of ensuring the mutual recognition of anti-doping controls and of reinforcing the implementation of the Convention using a binding control system.

McPhee cited these errors as follows: ( 1 ) The war was not fought against Vendeans but Royalist Vendeans, the government relied on the support of Republican Vendeans ; ( 2 ) the Convention ended the campaign after the Royalist Army was clearly defeated – if the aim was genocide, then they would have continued and easily exterminated the population ; ( 3 ) Fails to inform the reader of atrocities committed by Royalist against Republicans in the Vendée ; ( 4 ) Repeats stories now known to be folkloric myths as fact ; ( 5 ) Does not refer to the wide range of estimates of deaths suffered by both sides, and that casualties were not " one-sided "; and more.

Keswick Ministries was established in 2003 with the aim of taking the Bible teaching ministry at the Convention to a wider audience both nationally and internationally throughout the year using the many and varied forms of media available.

Rhett was one of the leading fire-eaters at the Nashville Convention of 1850, which failed to endorse his aim of secession for the whole South.

* What programmes of action referred to in Article 6 of the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention should aim at ( Article I );

The Convention sets out rules for the enforcement of letters rogatory by the authorities of a party (" requested party ") which aim to procure evidence ( audition of witnesses, experts and prosecuted persons, service of writs and records of judicial verdicts ) or to communicate the evidence ( records or documents ) in criminal proceedings undertaken by the judicial authorities of another party (" requesting party ").

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

For what we propose, however, a psychoanalyst is not necessary, even though one aim is to enable the reader to get beneath his own defenses -- his defenses of himself to himself.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

Nature's aim, different from ours, is to provide for the coming generation.

My aim in mentioning this factor obviously is not to give license to `` wild therapy '' but rather to encourage us to use the time-honored clinical casework skills we already possess, and to use them with greater confidence, precision, and professional pride.

The aim is to collect a very broad range of physical, chemical, morphological, and structural data for crystals on an encyclopedic scale and to seek all possible useful and revealing correlations of properties with internal structure.

Critical evaluation of all data compiled is not a primary aim of this project.

That much of what he calls folklore is the result of beliefs carefully sown among the people with the conscious aim of producing a desired mass emotional reaction to a particular situation or set of situations is irrelevant.

As a finale is appended a close-up of one of the band taking aim and firing his revolver straight at the audience.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

but my primary aim is to transcribe what Englishmen themselves are saying and writing and implying about the Roman and Anglican Churches and about the present religious state of England.

The Government of Armenia's stated aim is to build a Western-style parliamentary democracy as the basis of its form of government.

* 1925 – Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.

* 1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum ( then known as the " South Pacific Forum ") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

The aim was to prevent and minimize the consequences of natural outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases as well as the treat of alleged use of biological weapons against BTWC States Parties.

Parties are associations that aim at securing “ power within an organization the state for its leaders in order to attain ideal or material advantages for its active members .” ( Hurst, 206 ) This form of power can be related to the way in which the State is organized in modern social systems ( involving the ability to make laws, for example ).

Parties aim to avoid the problem by having a substantially larger list than they would hope to win as seats.

For example, Henry's " I know not what to say, my title's weak " ( 1. 1. 135 ), " All will revolt from me, and turn to him " ( 1. 1. 152 ), " And I with grief and sorrow to the court " ( 1. 1. 211 ), and " Revenged may she be on that hateful Duke ,/ Whose haughty spirit, wing'd with desire ,/ Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle / Tire on the flesh of me and my son " ( 1. 1. 267 – 270 ); Exeter's " And I, I hope, shall reconcile them all " ( 1. 1. 274 ); the entirety of York's soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 4 ; Warwick's pause to get his breath during the Battle of Barnet ( 2. 3. 1 – 5 ); all of Act 2, Scene 5 ( including dialogue from Henry, the father and the son ) up to the entry of Prince Edward at line 125 ; all of Henry's monologue in Act 3, Scene 1, prior to his arrest ( ll. 13 – 54 ); Richard's entire soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 2 ( ll. 124 – 195 ); Margaret's " Ay, now begins a second storm to rise ,/ For this is he that moves both wind and tide " ( 3. 3. 47 – 48 ); Warwick's soliloquy at the end of the Act 3, Scene 3 ( ll. 257 – 268 ); Richard's " I hear, yet say not much, but think the more " ( 4. 1. 85 ) and " Not I, my thoughts aim at a further matter :/ I stay not for love of Edward but the crown " ( 141. 124 – 125 ); Warwick's " O unbid spite, is sportful Edward come " ( 5. 1. 18 ); the entirety of Richard's soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 6, after killing Henry ( ll. 61 – 93 ) and Richard's " To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master / And cried ' All hail ', whenas he meant all harm " ( 5. 7. 33 – 34 ).

If both miss their aim they shall take to their cutlasses, and he that draw the first blood shall be declared the victor.

This, even for the sake of interest is more noxious than useful ; for, as another officer was telling me, if our sole aim is to equal the Turks, in fact we shall be in a far lower position than theirs: barbarians for barbarians, the Turks will always outdo us because they are Muslim barbarians.

* Athenian: " For ourselves, we shall not trouble you with specious pretenses — either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us — and make a long speech which would not be believed ; and in return we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Spartans, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both ; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must " ( Strassler 352 / 5. 89 ).

The JU upholds intergenerational equity in the areas of pension and health care system reforms, which shall aim at complementing them with capital-based private accounts in order to address fiscal problems such as Germany's debt-to-GDP ratio.

Believing in the Lord Jesus Christ as our personal savior, we, as Christian young men of Alpha Gamma Omega Fraternity, purpose that it shall be the aim of this fraternity:

* In June 1789, Montenegrin Chieftains, wrote to Russian Empress Katarina II, in the name of the entire Serb Montenegrin community: " We Serbs Montenegrins hope that we shall not be left without help " and " If we could have organization and munition, we would liberate our glorious Serb lands entirely from the Barbarian yoke ( Ottoman Empire ), together with our armed Serb brothers who aim to attack this enemy from all sides.

Hale's position was based on his concern that Hughes would draw the United States into another war with the Republic of Mexico and that Wilson, while not supportive enough of the Allies in Europe, " had the high aim of building up a national life in which, while honest business shall have every opportunity, privilege shall not rule the poor and the weak.

A 16-bit algebraic codebook shall be used in the innovative codebook search, the aim of which is to find the best innovation and gain parameters.

Its aim shall be the establishment of justice and righteousness among men of all nations.

Pitt assured " that the re-establishment of the Crown of France in such person of the family of Bourbon as shall be naturally entitled to it was the first and determined aim of the present Ministry ".

Article 15. a of the Statute states that the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe " shall consider the action required to further the aim of the Council of Europe, including the conclusion of conventions and agreements ".

* The aim of creating a modern and democratic kingdom shall be reached by peaceable means.

The emotion roused must be a sense of power, rather than that of grace ... To produce a design for a Mining Building which shall in all sincerity express its purpose and at the same time harmonize with future buildings quite as sincere in the expression of their purposes -- purposes in almost every case of greater amenity -- this has been the aim of the architect in approaching his task in its artistic phase.

# the aim of a united African Christianity, based on the idea that " Ethiopia shall stretch out its hands to God "

Ptolemy states that having dealt with the former subject ( astronomy ) in its own treatise, he " shall now give an account of the second and less self-sufficient method in a properly philosophical way, so that one whose aim is the truth might never compare its perceptions with the sureness of the first ".

# The upholding and advancement of the ethics of aviation shall be a basic aim of each individual member.

And victory e ' er shall be our aim O ' er the nation wide, ( Yell )

I am convinced that I shall attain this aim to-day, thanks to your honesty and to your sense of justice.