While the article specifically prohibits discrimination based on " sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status ", the last of these allows the court to extend to Article 14 protection to other grounds not specifically mentioned such as has been done regarding discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation.

While popular debate remains on what constitutes a legal definition of torture ( see discussion on the Torture page ), the ban on corporal punishment simplifies the matter ; even the most mundane physical abuse is thereby forbidden by Article 32, as a precaution against alternate definitions of torture.

While each state has plenary power to determine how it chooses its electors, it is unclear whether Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the Constitution requires congressional consent before this compact could take effect.

While Article 6 does not prohibit the death penalty, it restricts its application to the " most serious crimes " and forbids it to be used on children and pregnant women or in a manner contrary to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

While that dispute continued, Spain used its new control of Florida to block American access to the Mississippi, in defiance of Article 8.

While permitted by the WTO, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) ( Article VI ) allows countries the option of taking action against dumping.

While Article 4 of the American Convention had already placed severe restrictions on the states ' ability to impose the death penalty – only applicable for the most serious crimes ; no reinstatement once abolished ; not to be used for political offenses or common crimes ; not to be used against those aged under 18 or over 70, or against pregnant women – signing this protocol formalizes a state's solemn commitment to refrain from using capital punishment in any peacetime circumstance.

While maintaining that these forces were unconstitutional in light of Article 9, he claimed that, because they had been established through legal procedures, they had a " legitimate " status ( this phrasing was changed a year later to say that the Self-Defense Forces " exist legally ").

While a minority of Anglo-Catholics adhere to transubstantiation ( despite its denunciation in Article XXVIII of the Thirty-Nine Articles ), the majority of High Church Anglicans do not and are content simply to let the mystery of the manifestation of Christ remain a mystery.

While there is no explicit provision for the transfer of sovereignty over Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China, Article 10 is taken by many scholars as an implicit transfer.

While insubordination deals predominately with not following the orders of a superior, contempt in the U. S. military involves the use of contemptuous words against certain appointed or elected officials, as detailed in Article 88 of the military codebook.

While the court ruled against Gladys Ryan, the case remains a landmark as it established the right to privacy under the Irish Constitution ( or pehaps more correctly, the right to bodily integrity under Article 40. 3. 1.

While continuation and continuation-in-part applications are generally available in the U. S. only, divisional patent applications are also available in other countries, as such availability is required under Article 4G of the Paris Convention.

In the case of Security Council resolutions, it may well be employed with the hope of prohibiting the UNGA from calling an ' emergency special session ' on any unresolved matters, under the terms of the ' Uniting for Peace resolution ', owing to the Charter stipulation in Article 12 that: " While the Security Council is exercising in respect of any dispute or situation the functions assigned to it in the present Charter, the General Assembly shall not make any recommendation with regard to that dispute or situation.

While the United States of America is not a parliamentary democracy, Article I, Section 7 of the U. S. Constitution requires that all bills raising revenue originate in the House of Representatives, consistent with British constitutional practice ; by convention, appropriation bills ( bills that spend money ) also originate in the House.

While federal courts are generally created by the United States Congress under the constitutional power described in Article III, many of the specialized courts are created under the authority granted in Article I.

While same-sex couples have never been recognized by law, the new Serbian constitution, adopted in November 2006, explicitly defines marriage as being between a man and a woman in Article 62.

While 1Malaysia does not seek to do away with Article 153 of the Malaysian Constitution it does place a strong emphasis on protecting the rights and welfare of non-Malays.

While prospects at the outset of the conference initially seemed bleak, the New Agenda Coalition put together a historic agreement outlined in the 13 Steps, in which the nuclear weapons states affirmed, in accordance with Article VI of the NPT, that nuclear disarmament can and should proceed independently of general disarmament, that the nuclear powers have a responsibility to work together on " an unequivocal undertaking " to eliminate their arsenals, and that 13 relatively simple steps could help rid the world of nuclear weapons quickly, verifiably, and irreversibly.

While stating re the prosecution ' no charge or specification may be referred to a general court-martial for trial until a thorough and impartial investigation of all the matters set forth therein has been made ', Article 32 currently provides no upper time limit on consequent detention of the accused before trial.

While there had been no law against sodomy in the USSR, such a law was introduced in 1933, added to the penal code as Article 121, which condemned homosexual relations with penalties of imprisonment up to five years.

While Article VI of the Bylaws of the Trustees of Boston College states only that " the seal of the University shall consist of a flat circular die with wording as follows: Collegium Bostoniense, Religioni et Bonis Artibus, αἰέν ἀριστεὺειν.

" While some scholars have argued against the idea of a separate legal system for the military, the Article III courts continue the doctrine of deference.

While this loss of precision may be tolerable and viewed as a minor flaw of Algorithm I, it is easy to find data that reveal a major flaw in the naive algorithm: Take the sample to be ( 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 4, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 7, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 13, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 16 ).

While the early, hot universe appears to be well explained by the Big Bang from roughly 10 < sup >− 33 </ sup > seconds onwards, there are several problems.

While they do sometimes live solitarily, they are more commonly found in groups that average 10 – 20 individuals, with two to four adult males, four to seven adult females and the rest juveniles.

While there is not a large body of academic work examining the relationship, Hironaka's statistical study found a correlation that suggests that every major international anti-secessionist declaration increased the number of ongoing civil wars by + 10 %, or a total + 114 % from 1945 to 1997.

While rival Dell Computer had 55 % growth in U. S. PC sales in the first quarter of 1999, Compaq could only manage 10 %.

While TT is strictly uniform ( being based on the SI second, every second is the same as every other second ), it is in practice realised by International Atomic Time ( TAI ) with an accuracy of about 1: 10 < small >< sup > 14 </ sup ></ small >.

While on the Bears, Aaron earned $ 10 per game ($ today ).

While the Hungarian team narrowly missed winning the Bronze medal, Polgár finished 10 / 13 for the second highest points total of any player in the Olympiad and a rated performance level of 2772.

While the population of LambdaMOO once numbered close to 10, 000 with over 300 actively connected at any time, these days it is rare to see more than a few dozen actively participating connected players at one time.

While in prison he fell in love with Nina Gegechkori ( 1905 – 10 June 1991 ), his cellmate's niece, and they eloped on a train.

While it is common in surface micromachining to have structural layer thickness in the range of 2 µm, in HAR silicon micromachining the thickness can be from 10 to 100 µm.

While individuals could produce 200 pins per day, Smith analyzed the steps involved in manufacture and, with 10 specialists, enabled production of 48, 000 pins per day.

While radar was being developed during World War II, there arose an urgent need for a high-power microwave generator that worked at shorter wavelengths ( around 10 cm ( 3 GHz )) rather than the 150 cm ( 200 MHz ) that was available from tube-based generators of the time.

While their 7 – 10 mark down the stretch was slightly better than the previous season's 5 – 12, it still allowed the Phillies to pass them, once again.

While no single language is known to express all of them, most of them have at least 10 noun classes.

While hydrogen nuclei cannot fuse to form helium until the temperature reaches about 10 million K, lithium and beryllium are destroyed at temperatures of 2. 5 million K and 3. 5 million K respectively.

While the majority of plutinos have low orbital inclinations, a substantial number of them follow orbits similar to that of Pluto, with inclinations in the 10 – 25 ° range and eccentricities around 0. 2 – 0. 25, resulting in perihelia inside ( or close to ) the orbit of Neptune and aphelia close to the main Kuiper belt's outer edge ( where objects have 1: 2 resonance with Neptune ).

While in office, the Prime Minister officially resides at 10 Downing Street in London and is also entitled to use the country house of Chequers in Buckinghamshire.

While Africa could claim roughly 10 million Christians in 1900, recent estimates put that number closer to 200 million.

While walking home, he declared to Lucian Truscott, " You know, the guys there were so beautiful — they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago ".

While kerosene tanks can be 1 % of the weight of their contents, hydrogen tanks often must weigh 10 % of their contents.