Example sentences of "[noun pl] party to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 150 states are now parties to these conventions — by far the highest number of states parties to any laws-of-war agreements . |
| 2 | ‘ The provisions of this Convention shall not affect conventions or other international agreements already in force , as between states parties to them . |
| 3 | For Order 69 to apply the process must be in connection with ‘ civil or commercial proceedings in a foreign court or tribunal ’ and must have been received by the Senior Master with a written request for service from a consular or other authority in a convention country ( which term includes countries with which the United Kingdom has a relevant bilateral Convention and countries party to the Hague Convention ) or from the Foreign Secretary ( who would have been approached via diplomatic channels by the authorities of another state ) 262 . |
| 4 | Over 20 countries party to the 1979 Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats sent representatives to Strasbourg , France , in the second week of January , for a conference on protecting rare wildlife and threatened habitats . |
| 5 | EIB lending outside the EC amounted to ECU713 million , of which 48 per cent went to ( non-EC ) Mediterranean countries , 30 per cent to Poland and Hungary , and 21 per cent to those African , Caribbean and Pacific countries party to the Lomé Convention [ see p. 37210-11 ] . |
| 6 | Foreign Ministers from eight Arab countries party to the March Damascus Declaration [ see pp. 38116-17 ] — the six Gulf Co-Operation Council ( GCC ) states and Egypt and Syria — met in Kuwait City on July 15-16 but failed to reach agreement on the formation of a joint security force to defend Kuwait . |
| 7 | IRELAND 'S comprehensive 17–3 demolition of England at Lansdowne Road yesterday will boost their representation on the Lions party to New Zealand later in the year . |
| 8 | He had pursued the errant couple from The Times party to Brighton 's only Portuguese restaurant and back to the lift in the Grand Hotel . |
| 9 | Mr. Pannick submits that the only justification for section 9(4) in terms of the Convention is that it is addressed to avoiding prejudice to the sovereignty of the Crown since the states party to the Convention can never have contemplated that one of their number could limit the scope of its own obligations simply by refraining from giving the judiciary power to execute letters of request in particular circumstances . |
| 10 | In March 1990 , again on the initiative of the UK , the 13 states party to the 1974 Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage at Sea adopted a protocol to the convention which increased the compensation payable for death or personal injury to around US$225,000 . |
| 11 | A draft protocol on environmental protection for Antarctica was discussed during a meeting in Chile of states party to the 1959 Antarctic Treaty . |
| 12 | A Franco-Australian proposal [ see p. 37878 ] to ban mineral exploitation and designate the continent a " world park " , met with resistance from Japan , the United Kingdom and the USA at a meeting in Viva del Mar , Chile , in December of states party to the 1959 Antarctic Treaty [ see p. 37931 ] . |
| 13 | The annual consultative meeting of the 1972 London Dumping Convention ( LDC ) in London on Oct. 30-Nov. 2 , 1989 , attended by 35 of the 63 states party to the convention , unanimously agreed to prohibit the disposal at sea of decommissioned nuclear submarines . |
| 14 | It would send proposals from its biannual meetings to the Supreme Soviets of states party to the agreement and to the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) Councils of Heads of State and of Heads of Government . |
| 15 | Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev , visiting the United Kingdom on Oct. 28-31 , confirmed that nuclear weapons stationed in Kazakhstan would remain there , under the joint control of Kazakhstan and the other republics party to the economic treaty . |