(1) But in a mark of activists' defiance, Zhang Zuhua – another Charter 08 drafter who has been in "soft detention" and had communications cut off on Tuesday – issued a statement defending the document and Liu.
(2) This is precisely the problem that the drafters of the US constitution faced when they met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787.
(3) A drafter’s note says that every participating country’s individual laws about whistleblowing would still apply.
(4) Hours before it was due to be published, Liu, who had been one of the document’s drafters, was detained at his Beijing home.
(5) Its drafters say it is needed to harmonise international standards to protect the rights of those who produce music, movies, pharmaceuticals, fashion goods, and a range of other products that often fall victim to piracy and intellectual property theft.
(6) The case has raised fears that other drafters of Charter 08 could also face retribution from the authorities.
(7) This dynamic is well known, and was well stated by Alexander Hamilton, one of the drafters of the United States Constitution, in the late 18th century: Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
(8) It has evolved over the years, interpreting those rights in situations its postwar drafters could scarcely have imagined: the day after Natsvlishvili v Georgia came Hamalainen v Finland, the case of a male-to-female transsexual unhappy that because same-sex marriage is forbidden in her country, her new gender could not be fully officially recognised unless she divorced or turned her religious marriage into a civil partnership.
(9) Selection of target chemicals, information search, appointment of appropriate drafters, selection and evaluation of data, use of proprietary data, scientific and English editing, organization of international expert meetings, coordination and secretarial works were the important factors in the preparation of EHCs.
(10) It seems evident that drafters on the high-level panel do not believe in the zero hunger goal as much as they do in eradicating extreme poverty.
(11) It was this insight that drove drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after the Second World War.
(12) As she said: "With all due respect to the drafters of the American Declaration of Independence, all men and women are not created equal, at least in regard to their characters, abilities and aptitudes."
(13) It is argued that the value of ICRP recommendations to the drafter of legislation is their general acceptability, giving a firm basis for requirements, against which too frequent and too positive detailed recommendations provide an unfortunate offset.
(14) Salmawy, the drafters' spokesman, said the precise terms of the article were an improvement on last year's version, which was unclear about when such courts could be used to try civilians – and would only be used on terrorists who attacked military facilities.
(15) Border force announcement went to Peter Dutton's office twice before release Read more Roman Quaedvlieg, the darkly uniformed head of the goon squad, blamed the now apparently lowly Don Smith, (who, as many pointed out, didn’t sound so lowly as commander of Victorian and Tasmanian operations of the Australian Border Force) drafter of the original media statement announcing the operation.
(16) How could the bona fides of the drafters of the new charter be tested?
(17) The aim was to decide what to do about the constitution, whose drafters had reached an impasse.
(18) Two years later, when many of those drafters were sitting in the First Congress, the same problem popped up again.
(19) The drafters of the DSM faced a choice and might have chosen to address in some greater detail those disordered behaviors that do have legal relevance in that they arise with some degree of regularity in the courts.
(20) Holly Jacobs, the CCRI’s founder, has expressed concern that the lacuna is due to victim-blaming on the part of legislators, with one bill drafter telling her that people who took such photos are “stupid”.
Drawing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draw
(n.) The act of pulling, or attracting.
(n.) The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.
(n.) The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.
(n.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
(n.) The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
Example Sentences:
(1) By drawing from the pathophysiology, this article discusses a multidimensional approach to the treatment of these difficult patients.
(2) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(3) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(4) We are drawing back the curtains to let light into the innermost corridors of power."
(5) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
(6) Human figure drawings of 12 pediatric oncology patients were significantly smaller in height, width, and area than were drawings of 12 school children and 12 pediatric general surgery patients paired for sex and age.
(7) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(8) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(9) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(10) The patient with the right posterior lesion could not recognize handwriting, was prosopagnosic and topographagnosic, but had no difficulty in reading, lipreading, or in recognizing stylized drawings.
(11) It is the way these packages are constructed by a small cabal of longstanding advisers, drawing on the mechanics of game theory, that has driven the exponential increases in value over the past two decades.
(12) The record includes postoperative drawings of the intraoperative field by Dr. Cushing, a sketch by Dr. McKenzie illustrating the postoperative sensory examination, and pre- and postoperative photographs of the patient.
(13) This paper, which draws on the author's experience as chairman of the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), describes what is known about the characteristics of homeless persons and the causes of homelessness, and about the health status of homeless persons, which is often not very good (but not significantly worse, it would appear, than that of other low-income persons).
(14) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(15) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
(16) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
(17) By moving an electronic pen over a digitizing tablet, the subject could explore a line drawing stored in memory; on the display screen a portion of the drawing appeared to move behind a stationary aperture, in concert with the movement of the pen.
(18) On examples from their own practice the authors draw attention to the that the diagnosis and treatment of this disease is not always as straightforward as might appear from the literature.
(19) Consequently, assaying the enterobacteriaceae contents is not suitable to draw any reliable conclusions upon the salmonellae contents of fishmeal.
(20) Taken together, her procedural memory on learning tasks, such as "Tower of Hanoi" and mirror drawing, was intact.