(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”.
Grafter
Definition:
(n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
(n.) An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
(n.) The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
(2) They are grafters who are proud of doing the "right thing".
(3) The existence of immune privilege in the brain and the newly acquired understanding of immunologic privilege in the eye may offer strategies by which neural grafters can achieve significantly greater graft acceptance.
(4) For years she was the disciplined grafter who failed four times to win a constituency seat in Westminster and Holyrood before finally triumphing in 2007 (she was elected to Holyrood in 1999 and 2003 on the regional list).
(5) Soon enough, however, it became clear this new deal of high pay and low welfare was not all it seemed: millions of the low-paid grafters he claimed to champion were going to lose out.
(6) According to reports, the chancellor’s autumn statement next week will include promises specifically targeting this notional group of modest grafters so beloved by politicians - now being referred to in Whitehall as “jams”.
(7) He records the extraordinary lives of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who came to America, to work as retailers, as small time entrepreneurs, as grafters in the garment industry.
(8) And why should folk who don't toil be funded to live in homes that lowly grafters could never afford?
(9) Some captains want career-minded grafters, others want a more relaxed vibe.
(10) That is not to suggest Beckham deserves quite the same billing as that magical pair – he was always more grafter than genius – though he does deserve a lot more credit than he generally receives.
(11) Davidson told her party's annual conference in Edinburgh that the Tories wanted to appeal again to aspirational working-class voters – "the everyday grafters of Scotland" – so her party would use new financial powers at Holyrood to cut income taxes.
(12) He promised a tough fight to recast a new capitalism built around British values that reward the hard-working grafters and producers in business, and not the asset-stripping "predators".
(13) I have met plenty of English Brexit supporters who have expressed worries about immigration while paying warm tribute to Poles, Czechs and people from the Baltic states as admirable “grafters”, and assets to the places where they have settled.
(14) Sadiq is a grafter, he is someone who gets on with people, he is someone who is pragmatic when he needs to be and he certainly has a vision for this city.” What Labour can learn from my victory: we can’t ignore the things most voters want | Sadiq Khan Read more The Khan victory, trouncing the Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith, who had tried to paint his opponent as a dangerous “radical” and to divide Londoners of different faiths and races , has been hailed as evidence of a multicultural capital that has the self-confidence to be inclusive and tolerant.
(15) My generation is the result of a generation of grafters.
(16) Accusing David Cameron of being the last gasp of an old system, he said the country was crying out for a society in which the hard-working grafters are rewarded and the closed circles at the top of society are broken up.
(17) Yet back in the real world, or rather the place that does not have to bear very much reality at all, the past few days have yielded the usual spread of self-effacing hard grafters.