The principle is supported by Amnesty International and other human rights organisations as they believe certain crimes pose a threat to the international community as a whole and the community has a moral duty to act, but others, including Henry Kissinger argue that " widespread agreement that human rights violations and crimes against humanity must be prosecuted has hindered active consideration of the proper role of international courts.

This was greatly hindered by the lack of German people who actually desired to settle in the east, let alone act as Teutonic Knights there.

The Board of Regents hindered efforts by Governor Jeb Bush and the Republican-controlled legislature to end affirmative action in Florida's public universities, and it was consequently abolished by an act of the state legislature which was signed into law by Governor Bush on July 1, 2001.

By 1933 the BUF decided to act against the renegade IFL, with Blackshirts attacking a number of meetings culminating in an incident in Great Portland Street where fifty Blackshirts disguised as communists invaded the stage to attack Leese before causing considerable damage to the hall in an attempt to force a large bill onto the IFL.

Taxes were significantly lowered – to 19 % for companies and for persons running business activity – and the act of freedom in business activity was voted through.

Sowing is an apt name for this activity, since not only are many games traditionally played with seeds, but placing seeds one at a time in different holes reflects the physical act of sowing.

The ( R )- enantiomer of modafinil has also recently been found to act as a D < sub > 2 </ sub > receptor partial agonist, with a K < sub > i </ sub > of 16 nM, an intrinsic activity of 48 %, and an EC < sub > 50 </ sub > of 120 nM, in rat striatal tissue.

MAOIs act by inhibiting the activity of monoamine oxidase, thus preventing the breakdown of monoamine neurotransmitters and thereby increasing their availability.

Miller ( 1992 ) defines a street gang as “ a self-formed association of peers, united by mutual interests, with identifiable leadership and internal organization, who act collectively or as individuals to achieve specific purposes, including the conduct of illegal activity and control of a particular territory, facility, or enterprise.

Procaine penicillin and benzathine penicillin have the same antibacterial activity as benzylpenicillin but act for a longer time span.

The application of that rule will vary with the nature and quality of the defendant's activity, but it is essential in each case that there be some act by which the defendant purposefully avails itself of the privilege or conducting activities within the forum State, thus invoking the benefits and protection of its laws.

Pattern of racketeering activity requires at least two acts of racketeering activity, one of which occurred after the effective date of this chapter and the last of which occurred within ten years ( excluding any period of imprisonment ) after the commission of a prior act of racketeering activity.

In this role, he would coordinate all Starfleet activity in the Bajoran sector and act as an executive officer on the USS Defiant.

The One, being beyond all attributes including being and non-being, is the source of the world — but not through any act of creation, willful or otherwise, since activity cannot be ascribed to the unchangeable, immutable One.

The archbishoprics of Hamburg and Bremen had been created with the intent that they would act as bases for missionary activity in northern and eastern Europe.

# An act of construction ( i. e. the activity of building, see also builder )

One of the largest groups of kinases are protein kinases, which act on and modify the activity of specific proteins.

These forces often act in concert to maintain law and order in the country as well as to route-out illegal activity and other threats to the country of Barbados.

Miller ( 1992 ) defines a street gang as “ a self-formed association of peers, united by mutual interests, with identifiable leadership and internal organization, who act collectively or as individuals to achieve specific purposes, including the conduct of illegal activity and control of a particular territory, facility, or enterprise.

Gang-related activity and violence has increased along the U. S. Southwest border region, as US-based gangs act as enforcers for Mexican drug cartels.

Brahmacarya for yogis, as stated in the Agni-Purana, embodies self-imposed abstention from sexual activity: fantasizing, glorifying the sex act or someone's sexual attraction, dalliance, sexual ogling, sexually flirtatious talk, the resolution to break one's vow, and consummation of sexual intercourse itself, with any being.

Computer surveillance is the act of performing surveillance of computer activity, and of data stored on a hard drive or being transferred over the Internet.

However, the sodium does not necessarily act as a regulatory subunit ; the sodium is always present and there are no known biological processes to add / remove sodium to regulate enzyme activity.

UNICEF notes that sexual activity is often seen as a private matter, making communities reluctant to act and intervene in cases of sexual exploitation.

It is an act of completion of a commercial activity.

Twenty minutes after the interruption, although it was still raining, the play was resumed at the point in the fourth act where it had been stopped.

The Roman Catholic Church likewise treats it as any other act of renunciation of the Catholic faith, although for a few years, from 2006 to 2009, it did note in the baptismal register any formal act of defection from the Catholic Church, a concept quite distinct from that of presentation of such a certificate.

Like the adjacent Arabic culture ( in the pre-Islamic period ), the act of marriage appears mainly to have consisted of the groom fetching the bride, although among the Israelites ( unlike the Arabs ) the procession was a festive occasion, accompanied by music, dancing, and lights.

In general, the dative marks the indirect object of a verb, although in some instances the dative is used for the direct object of a verb pertaining directly to an act of giving something.

Functionally, Anglican episcopal authority is expressed synodically, although individual provinces may accord their primate with more or less authority to act independently.

However, although IQ attempts to measure some notion of intelligence, it may fail to act as an accurate measure of " intelligence " in its broadest sense.

Members of Congress are exempted from insider trading laws and thus can act on information they are bound to gain in the course of their congressional activities, although house rules may consider it unethical.

However, although both the gospels and Josephus refer to Herod Antipas killing John the Baptist, they differ on the details and motives, e. g. whether this act was a consequence of the marriage of Herod Antipas and Herodias ( as indicated in Matthew 14: 4, Mark 6: 18 ), or a pre-emptive measure by Herod which possibly took place before the marriage to quell a possible uprising based on the remarks of John, as Josephus suggests in Antiquities 18. 5. 2.

" It was held that this was sufficient to show that although the defendant was suffering from a mental illness, he was aware that his act was wrong, and the defense was not allowed.

China's new leaders Hua Guofeng and Deng Xiaoping both visited North Korea in 1978, although they failed to reach a common understanding on relations with the Soviet Union ( Beijing was not on friendly terms with Moscow during the 1970s, while Pyongyang continued its usual balancing act ).

However, this power can be surrendered to other organizations if the Attorney General declares the case to be linked to an intentional criminal act, although the NTSB would still provide technical support in such investigations.

There does not have to be a formal agreement for collusion to take place ( although for the act to be illegal there must be actual communication between companies )– for example, in some industries there may be an acknowledged market leader which informally sets prices to which other producers respond, known as price leadership.

In both Veraguas and the capital this act was met with disdain, although on differing levels of said emotion.

Sergius ceased to act as bishop of Caere with the death of Formosus in 896, as all of the ordinations conferred by Formosus were declared null and void, although Formosus ’ ordination of Sergius was subsequently reconfirmed by Theodore II.

This act has been cited as the end of the Western Roman Empire, although Romulus ' deposition did not cause any significant disruption at the time.

When Philip besieged Aumale in Normandy, Richard grew tired of waiting and seized the manor, although the act was opposed by the Church.

" On opening night, Orbison opted to go onstage first although he was the more established act.

The government formulated a five-year economic development plan, although it was unable to act on it prior to being overthrown.

Copulation, although usually used to describe the mating process of non-human animals, is defined as " the transfer of the sperm from male to female " or " the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman ".

Act utilitarians, on the other hand, do not accept human rights as moral principles in and of themselves, but that does not mean that they reject them altogether: first, most act utilitarians, as explained above, would agree that acts such as enslavement and genocide always cause great unhappiness and very little happiness ; second, human rights could be considered rules of thumb so that, although torture might be acceptable under some circumstances, as a rule it is immoral ; and, finally, act utilitarians often support human rights in a legal sense because utilitarians support laws that cause more good than harm.

Silver Ravenwolf, for instance, believes that although acting to restrain a wrong-doer is in a sense harming them, failure to act against them could allow greater harm ; this must be carefully weighed up, and preferably a course of action can be found that minimises harm to all parties.

The Unknowable One ( literally written as the Miniature Presence ) refers to events on earth when events can be understood as natural happenings instead of God's act, although it is actually the act of God.