While the 1990 constitution remains in force, it has been amended four times since its adoption — in 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2010.

) While the monarch retains some powers from the constitution, most particular is lèse majesté which protects the image and ability of the monarch to play a role in politics and carries modest criminal penalties for violators.

While most of these migrations had an economic background, Germany has also been a prime destination for refugees from many developing countries, in part because its constitution long had a clause giving a ' right ' to political asylum, but restrictions over the years have since made it less attractive.

While the constitution guarantees the protection of human rights, in practice there are severe limits on freedom of expression, and the government supervises the lives of the people closely.

While there are no dietary restrictions in the Bahá ' í Faith, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, the son of the religion's founder, noted that a vegetarian diet consisting of fruits and grains was desirable, except for people with a weak constitution or those that are sick.

While the United Kingdom has no codified constitution, relying on a number of legal conventions and pieces of legislation, it is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights which covers both human rights and civil liberties.

While UNMIK still exists, it does so in a minor role since Kosovo declared independence and adopted a new constitution, and following the creation of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo ( EULEX ).

While the GLA has a modern constitution, the organisation of the City of London has barely changed since the Middle Ages.

While the constitution grants Congress power to extend copyright terms in order to " promote the progress of science and useful arts ," CTEA granted precedent to continually renew copyright terms making them virtually perpetual.

While complying with the constitution, this allowed Cinna to act as monarch while still appearing to follow the will of the population.

While working on a constitution for Japan, he also wrote the first Imperial Household Law and established the Japanese peerage system ( kazoku ) in 1884.

While the National Assembly worked painstakingly towards a constitution, Louis and Marie-Antoinette were involved in plans of their own.

While the Basic Law was modified rather than replaced by a constitution as such, it still permits the adoption of a formal constitution by the German people at some time in the future.

While the ROC continuously ruled Taiwan after the government was directed to Taiwan by the General Order No. 1 ( 1945 ) to receive Japanese surrender, there has never been a meeting of the ROC National Assembly in making a territory change according to the ROC constitution.

While retaining their tribal governance, which included a constitution or official council in tribes such as the Iroquois and Cherokee, many portions of the southeastern Native American nations had become partially or completely economically integrated into the economy of the region.

While radical in its day, the constitution of 1814 was a product of its age.

While the constitution of Luxembourg formerly required the Grand Duke's signature on a new law for it to take effect, this right was stripped from him in 2008 after the monarch informed his prime minister that he could not in good conscience sign a bill to permit euthanasia in the country.

While the Soviet constitution formally creates a federal system, the Chinese constitution formally creates a unitary multi-national state.

While the new constitution removed the legal difference between citizens and residents, residents were not allowed to use the extensive land owned by the citizen's community.

While drafting the new constitution, lawyer and liberal congressman Joaquín Satrústegui ( 1909 – 1992 ) insisted that the phrase the legitimate heir of the historic dynasty be included in the text to underscore that the monarchy was an historic institution predating the constitution or the prior regime.

While on trip to La Paz, Bolivia in 1993 to work on the reform of the Bolivian constitution, Nino had an asthma attack and subsequently died.

While Councilman Olson cited the anticipated increase in school costs in answer to a direct question from a taxpayer, the impact upon a school system does not have to be measured only in increased taxes to find alarm in uncontrolled growth.

While some regression is inevitable, it is discouraged rather than encouraged so that the transference does not follow the stages of planned regression associated with certain casework adaptations of the psychoanalytic model for insight therapy.

While the `` empirical psychoanalytic '' label which Fromm claims sheds no light on the validity of his underlying philosophy, it does increase the marketability of his product.

While casuistry makes use of ethical theory, it does not view ethical theory as the most important feature of moral reasoning.

While it does not bias the OLS coefficient estimates, the standard errors tend to be underestimated ( and the t-scores overestimated ) when the autocorrelations of the errors at low lags are positive.

While this does bear some similarity with the classic posture of cowboys firing their twin revolvers from the hip, in games this posture is almost never reflected, with almost all game characters firing twin guns at shoulder level, straight-armed.

While bone is essentially brittle, it does have a significant degree of elasticity, contributed chiefly by collagen.

While this may not be a direct adaptation, it does resemble the scene with the hostage situation in Batman: Year One, only replacing James Gordon with Harvey Dent ( Aaron Eckhart ).

While central registries are kept in some countries which aid in proving claims of ownership, registering does not necessarily prove ownership, nor does the fact of copying ( even without permission ) necessarily prove that copyright was infringed.

While the government doesn't restrict foreign land ownership, it does strongly enforce its immigration laws.

While not a national holiday, it does appear on all printed calendars, much as Father's Day does in the West.

While most of these testimonies represent ailments neither diagnosed nor treated by medical professionals, the Church does require three other people to vouch for any testimony published in its official organ, the Christian Science Journal.

While God does not change, our perception of God does, and so, Jews are open to new experiences of God's presence.

While the common chimpanzee is mostly herbivorous, it does eat honey, soil, insects, birds and their eggs, and small to medium-sized mammals, including other primates.

While Duck Hunt does not have a traditional multiplayer mode, the manual states that a second player may plug in a standard NES controller in the other controller port and control the duck that appears.

While the Russian Orthodox Church does recognize the first seven ecumenical councils as valid, some Russian Orthodox theologians believe that the infallibility of these councils ' statements derived from their acceptance by the faithful ( and thus from the infallibility of all believers ), and not from the acts of the councils themselves.

While Eiffel does not allow direct access to the features of a class by a client of the class, it does allow for the definition of an " assigner command ", such as:

While the equation is definitely superior to the ideal gas law and does predict the formation of a liquid phase, the agreement with experimental data is limited for conditions where the liquid forms.

While in the case of 1 Corinthians, the love ' does not ' statements like boasting remind one of the criticisms of the Corinthians earlier in the book, Colossians is different.

While based on Lindy Hop, it does have clear distinctions.