In this regard, the Republic of Azerbaijan considers it unacceptable and inconsistent with the principles of inter-State relations to turn a blind eye to illegal activities of the Republic of Armenia, to proceed from the approach based on equating the aggressor and its victim and to tolerate within the national territories of the members of the international community the actions directed against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

In this regard, I wish to reiterate Palestine’s firm position that there is absolutely no symmetry or proportionality between the occupying Power and the occupied people and thus our rejection of any equating of the military aggression and crimes committed by Israel, the occupying Power, against the Palestinian people with actions that may have been committed by the Palestinian side.

The right to fight for liberation from foreign occupation, the main reason for the crisis, was a legitimate right and could not be equated with military aggression.

He noted that even though there was no legal instrument defining mercenary activities, that paragraph automatically equated the activities of private military and security companies and those of mercenaries.

Volume Median Diameter (note: for water-based systems, VMD equates to MMD – the Mass Median Diameter).

The Court could have considered the scope of the question from an approach which does not, in a formalistic fashion, equate the absence of a prohibition with the existence of a permissive rule; it could also have considered the possibility that international law can be neutral or deliberately silent on the international lawfulness of certain acts.

By equating the concept of object with that of purpose, by appending the second action to the first in a legally questionable manner through a reference to “consideration of the second part of the legal action”, and by allowing its attention to be diverted from lack of jurisdiction ratione materiae by considerations relating to article 26 — which could have been applied to the first action (for restitution) — the Committee has made errors of judgement with regard to both the facts and the law.

Several participants highlighted the fact that, irrespective of the approach taken to liberalize trade in services, liberalization should not be an end in itself and it should not be equated to deregulation, since the real objectives of reform should be to achieve efficiency and competitiveness to foster jobs and development overall.

The 2007/2008 numbers refer to all offences where either the intent to cause grievous bodily harm (GHB) or the consequences of the assault equated to GBH regardless of intent.

By the same token, to equate the push for referendum with the fight for "Hong Kong independence" is not only superficial and erroneous, this reckless assumption also turns a blind eye on the reality.

The Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) approach, which equates the rate of return to the weighted average of the costs of financing by equity and debt respectively, is commonly adopted by overseas regulators.

As we support all legitimate international efforts towards the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, we express concern over attempts by certain countries to narrow down the three pillars of the NPT to one pillar, non-proliferation, by equating nuclear weapons with nuclear energy, even though the other two pillars are equally important.

This view stems partly from a misplaced tendency to equate cultural diversity with cultural relativism, which has the effect of raising fears and misunderstandings regarding the recognition and implementation of cultural rights.

At 1,000 litres per minute, every second of spillage equates to more than 15 litres of diesel wasted and released into the environment while the cost to repair or replace ruptured fuel tanks is significant in terms of materials, labour and equipment down time.

Arising from the EU Council Directive 79/7EEC, the Old-age Pensions on Favourable Conditions Act and the Superannuated Pensions Act equate the requirements of years of pensionable service for women with those for men.

Likewise, on the basis of the EC Regulation (European Council (EC) Regulation No. 1346/2000 on insolvency proceedings), aimed, it should be noted, at allowing a determination of jurisdiction rather than cooperation, it is logical to define the main proceeding as that which is followed in a State where the debtor has the centre of its main interests, which, in the case of a physical person, equates to the person’s habitual residence, in the absence of proof to the contrary.

It would also be a fallacy to equate the ROSU incursion with the unacceptable extremism of masked looters at Gate 1, whose actions were neither planned nor sanctioned by Serbia.