But the plaintiffs in the lawsuit argued that the Florida Reform Party no longer met a requirement that it be affiliated with a national party holding a national convention to nominate presidential candidates because the Reform Party USA -- the remnants of a movement spearheaded by Ross Perot in 1992 -- no longer met that definition.
Lao PDR, as a Party to the Convention, is expected to present by 30 of April 2012 a periodic report on the policies and measures taken within its territory and at the international level to protect and promote the diversity of cultural expressions.
Richard Lugar and Orrin Hatch -- both stalwarts of the GOP who have committed apostasy by trying to work across party lines -- face primaries this season that imperil their survival: A poll Thursday morning found Lugar down 5 points to a tea party-backed challenger in Indiana, and Hatch failed to secure a 60% supermajority at his party's convention in Utah, sending his race to a primary.
Having come to power through a party convention rather than a popular vote, he is under pressure to confirm his mandate in a general election.
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The protocol specifies that if a State Party to the Protocol considers that another State Party is not giving effect to a provision of the Convention, it may, by written communication, bring the matter to the attention of that State.
United States because the United States is not a party to the Convention.
Yet, even before the delegates had assembled for a party convention on February 20th to pick a permanent successor to Mr Clark, the dirt was flying again.
The 1978 Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties does not bind the United States because the United States is not a party to the Convention.
What the Justice Department's 1996 memorandum on this issue fails to point out is that neither the United States, the Soviet Union nor Russia is a party to this 1978 convention--and that in fact 90 percent of the world's states have also refused to sign it.
In 1976, the year he was elected to the Senate, he was close to the hawkish wing of the Democratic Party he went to the Convention as a delegate for Henry (Scoop) Jackson but he built his own nest in the aviary.
He said he would continue to campaign for delegates to the late-July Democratic National Convention in a bid to influence the party's platform.
Unlike Australia, it is not a party to the United Nations Refugee Convention.
As a State Party to the World Heritage Convention, Palestine can submit nominations of sites for inscription on the World Heritage List.
The winner of each will receive a trip to their party's convention.
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As a state that is party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Iran has undertaken not to execute child offenders.
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He seems certain to be dumped at a party convention next May. (Sadly his defeat may make other politicians think twice before championing a tax on carbon emissions.) Some of the Liberals' erstwhile supporters seem to have switched to the socialist New Democrats.
According to the Third Geneva Convention itself (the one covering POWs), for a person to qualify as a POW and be accorded the treatment proscribed in said convention, that person must be affiliated (either regular army or militia meaning some sort of uniform) with a "High Contracting Power" (a state that was party to the convention but for argument's sake we'll say any state).
Primaries and caucuses will be held in every US state over the next few months to pick a Republican nominee before the eventual winner is anointed at the party convention in August to take on Democratic President Barack Obama in November.
Through March 6 (Super Tuesday), 13 primaries or caucuses will either decide the Republican nomination or head it into continued uncertainty all the way to the convention, a situation neither party has been in for more than 30 years.
He is due to be replaced as Liberal leader at a party convention in May.
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Five years ago this week, China officially became a party to the World Health Organization's Framework Convention Tobacco Control.
Yet when Mr Checchi was obliged to beam down from the virtual world to the real one to attend a convention of the state's Democratic Party in Los Angeles on March 20th-22nd, he put on a dismal performance.
"When a political party doesn't have their sitting president come to the convention or speak in prime time, that's red flag number one, " he said.
As a result, the United Russia party convention voted almost unanimously to put Medvedev on top of the elections list, with 582 votes cast for him and only one vote against.
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They must choose from a list of "experts" to which every state party to the convention -- not just China and Russia but other unfriendly nations such as Cuba and Burma -- can contribute.
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The Reform Party is mailing a write-in survey to its members this week to determine who will be listed on a nomination ballot at the party's convention August 11.
Many expect the party's elders to have chosen a successor by the time the LDP holds its annual convention on March 13th.
Under Article 110 of the convention a warship has first to send an officer-led party to board a suspected pirate ship to verify any suspicions.
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