(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”.
Drifter
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(1) A drifter, he meandered from city to city, in and out of prison, before arriving in Paradise, where he founded the first branch of the Allah Temple Of Islam in 1930 and set himself up as a black Messiah.
(2) Doctor Sleep , his 56th novel, revisits Danny in adulthood, when he has become an alcoholic drifter haunted by the memory of his raging father.
(3) With the coming of steam drifters in 1900 trawling for white fish became easier and they substituted for the herring and the taste for herring has been lost.
(4) In the classic Hollywood movie, whether the hero is cop, cowboy, private eye, rebel or drifter, there comes a moment when this solitary, self-sufficient loner faces the bad guys all by himself.
(5) AP Singh, representing 19-year-old Sharma, reminded the court of his client's youth and the effect of alcohol, while Thakur's lawyer argued that the 26-year-old drifter had a young son and an aged mother.
(6) Some, like a young white Californian who gave his name only as Sam, are drifters with no clear-cut agenda.
(7) Anticipation is high, therefore, for this sequel to the horror classic, in which Danny, the young boy whose telepathic gift stirred up the ghosts of the Overlook hotel, has grown up to be a troubled drifter using what is left of his "shining" power to bring comfort to the dying in a New Hampshire nursing home.
(8) Among them was Lovers in a Dangerous Space Time, Hyper Light Drifter, Might No 9 from Comcept, Fenic Rage, Aztez and Threes, which is just about the only game on this whole article that my wife would recognise.
(9) They had been joined by a fruit seller and a part-time gym assistant, a former colleague and the juvenile, who was an illiterate drifter, on a "joy ride" after hours of heavy drinking on the evening of the assault.
(10) He described his bookmaker father, Joseph, as a feckless drifter.
(11) In The Homesman , Tommy Lee Jones’s grizzled drifter reflects that folk are happy to yak about death and taxes, “but when it comes to crazy, they just hush up”.
(12) The 59-year-old “drifter” was named as John Russel Houser .
(13) Houser, 59, was described by police as a “drifter”.
(14) Guthrie and Seeger would come to represent different poles of the same world: one a self-mythologising drifter with an outsider's wild charisma, the other a steadfast, reassuring figure amid turbulent times.
(15) Usually, a flammable liquid was poured and ignited by a drifter who was a brief acquaintance and earlier involved in an argument with the victim.
(16) In our work ‘Drifter’ we performed on the rooftops of the vertical city.
(17) The shooter, described as a “drifter” with a history of mental illness, killed Jillian Johnson, 33, and Mayci Breaux, 21, and injured nine others.
(18) The descriptive names of the categories, together with their proportionate sizes and the mean annual consultation rates within the categories were: (1) 'Healthy and competent' (16%; 1.03); (2) 'Contented returners' (12%; 3.28); (3) 'Information seekers' (8%; 4.08); (4) 'Support seekers' (15%; 4.62); (5) 'Drifters' (21%; 2.21) and (6) 'Those hard to convince' (6%; 3.59).
(19) While the details are not yet known of when, where and how Houser, a drifter from Alabama, purchased his weapons, law enforcement said Friday he was denied a concealed-carry permit in 2006 due to a domestic violence report and arson arrest.
(20) The Drifters, or at least the latest reincarnation of a group that has had more parts than Trigger’s broom , provided the half-time entertainment at Goodison Park.