Victimhood confers a right to complain, protest, and demand.

Veto power is effectively shifting from the UN Security Council to G 77 plus China.

The Hamas Veto

It still gives the victors of the Second World War permanent membership of the Council, and a veto over its decisions.

The right to veto was the price demanded by China, France, Great Britain, Russia, and the US for joining the UN.

The President vetoed the bill, but Congress overrode his veto.

The moral argument that the veto should not be used in cases of mass atrocity crimes is overwhelming.

Because the Czech Parliament s upper house has an absolute veto over constitutional amendments, the opportunity to amend the Constitution was lost.

The junta then assumed legislative authority, as well as the power to form a constitutional assembly and veto proposed constitutional provisions.

Argentina cannot hope to reach an accommodation with the IMF so long as these officials retain a virtual veto.

A moment's reflection should raise another question does Bush's Texas swagger qualify him to remain America's Commander in Chief?

The US has threatened to veto the resolution in the Security Council, and the US Congress has threatened to suspend American aid to the Palestinian Authority.

Many Europeans are sick of British vetoes.

It must receive full sovereignty over EU budget making and the right to sign off on all decisions taken by a qualified majority in the Council.

Only the United Kingdom (which, like France itself, last resorted to the veto in 1989) has given any hint of support for the French initiative.

For example, India permits all religions to flourish while ensuring that none is privileged by the state.

Limiting the Security Council Veto

The USA, on the other hand, have spoken out clearly in favour of a veto.

President Hayes vetoed the bill.

The IMF in which the US is the only country with veto power shows little sympathy with such political concerns in the developing world.

Today, German governance resembles an 18 th century liberal system, with veto rights embedded throughout the decision making process.

According to that agreement, an opposition deputy minister had veto power in cases of new debt, forcing the government to negotiate with the opposition.

Family law conflicts of laws

'Yes, God sends a cross and gives the strength to bear it.

Republicanism grants each individual, regardless of his or her other identities equal rights in order to achieve universal equality. It does not deny distinctive identities and gives each the right to express itself within the private sphere.

It does not deny distinctive identities and gives each the right to express itself within the private sphere.

This does not mean that Moscow should be given a veto over Ukraine's security orientation or that Ukraine can never become a member of NATO.

He stands there more dead than alive...

While West Germany's economy was stronger, France was a nuclear power and a permanent, veto wielding, member of the UN Security Council.

The veto in high politics would include any issues that touch on national security or sensitive foreign policy, most importantly the relationship with Israel.

As one expert put it, its permanent members veto was designed to be like a fuse box in an electrical system better that the lights go out than that the house burn down.

But Ukraine is also a European country, which gives it the right to apply for EU membership an aspiration voiced by Ukraine s leaders.

Worse, the law empowers the police to search any establishment or public space suspected of violating the provisions of the law.

But the League s unanimity requirement effectively gave all members veto power, and the United States Senate s refusal to ratify its Covenant condemned the effort to a premature death.

Too often, UN peacekeeping missions require passing the hat among the advanced industrial countries, giving them virtual veto power over when, where, and how the UN acts.

Too often, UN peacekeeping missions require passing the hat among the advanced industrial countries, giving them virtual veto power over when, where, and how the UN acts.

One woman gives birth to a baby.

One woman gives birth to borders.

The economic case for a European globalization fund is that trade policy has been delegated to the European level, while Union members retain control rights to block decisions. Consider the hypothetical example of full trade liberalization in textiles, which would have greatly asymmetric effects between, say, Sweden, with hardly any textile industry, and Portugal, with a substantial one.

Before even a word has been spoken, Europeans are being told that the negotiations in Brussels will be bad tempered, with vetoes by individual member states looming large.

Because the eurozone lacks a strong central governing body, crisis policies emerge from a political process in which each of the 19 member states has veto power.

The Right to Eat

The Right to Die

Yes, really!'

'Really, there's not room!