(1) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(2) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(3) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(4) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
(5) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(6) Acts like this have no place in our country and in a civilized society,” Lynch said in Washington.
(7) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
(8) However, civil society groups have raised concerns about the ethics of providing ‘climate loans’ which increase the country’s debt burden.
(9) The authors are also upfront about what has not gone so well: "We were too slow to mobilise … we did not identify clear leadership or adequate resources for the actions … it is vital to accelerate the programme of civil service reform."
(10) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
(11) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(12) If wide notice is taken of a current spat over what we can read about Shakespeare’s sexuality into the sonnets in the correspondence columns of the Times Literary Supplement, Sonnet 20 may be a future favourite at civil unions.
(13) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(14) But with a civil war raging and no one to protect them, most migrants are at risk of kidnap, extortion and forced labour.
(15) The army has said it will deploy troops on the streets on that day, while the president says he may introduce a state of emergency if, as expected, the protests spark widespread civil unrest.
(16) I am one of those retired civil servants who has not received my pension.
(17) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
(18) On 26 April 1937 this market town was obliterated in three hours of bombing by Nazi planes, allies of Generalísimo Francisco Franco’s fascists in the Spanish civil war.
(19) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
(20) A Catholic boys’ school has reversed its permission to allow civil rights drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a lesbian couple, to shoot on location in New York State.
Comity
Definition:
(n.) Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States.
Example Sentences:
(1) I would do so in consideration of the appellants' rights, to avoid the possibility of a miscarriage of justice, and in comity with the supreme courts' request for time to resolve the issues pending before it."
(2) In 1934, Von Meduna noticed several times an improvement of patients affected by comitial crisis, when treating them by convulsive treatment.
(3) This paper is devoted to an electroencephalographic study of 40 patients: visual analysis of EEG rhythms (frequency, amplitude, lability, morphology), effects of activation methods, description of pathological EEG patterns (periodic paroxysmal complexes in 38 cases; slow or fast spikes, polyspikes and bifrontal or diffuse spikewaves in 9 cases; localized comitial abnormal patterns in 5 cases; bifrontal delta rhythm in 13 cases).
(4) Government senators worked themselves up talking about how this is an abuse of parliamentary processes, a clear breach of conventions, an affront to comity, and a terrible precedent.
(5) States which look to the law and to the rules of the comity of nations for the resolution of disputes should not be frustrated by the lack of avenues under international law for settlement of these disputes."
(6) "This can manifest itself in a reduction of trust and comity, and increased skepticism toward committee actions.
(7) 27 women had related history: ischemic vascular accident (5), hyp ertension (5), thromboembolism (4), Basedow disease (3), heavy smoking (3), essential comitiality (2), migraine (1), essential hyperlipidemia (1).
(8) If he had confronted Putin in Hamburg, even fairly neutral observers would have wondered if it was staged for effect; if he’d made a show of comity, then it would be evidence that he was Moscow’s dupe.
(9) Sodium Valproate, aside from its anti-comitial activity, has already proven to be active in the treatment and the prevention of manic episode.
(10) As the hapless Steve Martin says to his hopeless travel companion, John Candy, in Planes, Trains and Automobiles: “You know, I was thinking, when we put our heads together … we’ve really gotten nowhere.” Comity in the polity is overrated and should certainly not be mistaken for what is right or even popular.
(11) The convulsive crisis (involuntary muscular contractions, tonic then clonic, associated to a sudden loss of conscience) occur on comitial persons or represent the expression of a prolonger cerebral suffering following a deficiency of one or several nutrients, necessary to the function of the nervous system (glucose, oxygen...) or an drug intoxication (local anesthetics) of the nervous centers.
(12) That all this has happened at the expense of the constitutional order, and of the spirit of comity and good faith so necessary for the functioning of that order, seems not to trouble McConnell or his colleagues in the least.