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Historic, bustling and awe-inspiring, the cosmopolitan capital is a blend of cultures that offers many places to see and experiences that you won’t forget.

I admit that we are now employing a tactic; we find that two Members are absent, and we therefore wish to vote on the Bill right now, as quickly as possible.

It may be feared that many Member States, whose administrative structures are often inappropriate and staff overworked, will shrink from the difficulty, since the stakes are low.

[...] a fearful thing, even if something is done [...]

In this Legislative Council, if it is necessary to make use of legislation to exercise control over some significant public utility companies, in order to make them comply with the aspirations of the majority of Hong Kong people on issues such as profit control, environmental protection or reduction in gas emissions, and if such a move does reflect the true aspirations of the majority of Members as well as the majority public, then we should go ahead doing it, and we should not submit to the threats or intimidation of certain individuals or the so-called representatives of the trades.

[...] customary law (But Were Afraid to Answer).

You can walk in the forest with a wilderness guide or you can wait for the more timid animals in a photography booth – you can see the animals in their natural habitat.

It is also saddening that, despite the achievements of the Government, it should lack the confidence to engage Legislative Council Members during the legislative process, but should instead choose to obstruct and deny the existence of the Legislative Council.

The author’s fear that he would suffer harsh treatment in the future is based on unsubstantiated suspicions, which the State party, given its knowledge of Armenia, considers implausible.

[...] care, without fear or favour, as [...]

Eris gave them all their worst nightmares: Calissa was unable to swim and sunk to the bottom of the ocean; Kattrin became slow at everything; Renata became scared and timid; Selena became an ugly fish; and Mirabella became enclosed in a tight space.

The ultimate goal is to protect human dignity and human rights from those who would encroach upon them, particularly the dignity and rights of the weak and the helpless, the dissident and the forgotten.

43. One of the main reasons for this reluctance to change is that, as has been noted repeatedly over the years, UNESCO’s Constitution is considered as a sturdy, solid and extremely well balanced instrument – perhaps one of the best in the international system – and as a result, Member States have often baulked at the prospect of needing to amend fundamental provisions in the Constitution as a necessary prerequisite for implementing some of the modifications agreed upon during debates on these three organs issues.

As we can still freely express our ideas now, we should act according to our conscience instead of aiding and abetting injustice; and we should not conceal our fear with the so-called low-profile approach and embellish our country's sovereignty and the CPC.

UNESCO’s association with this anniversary is the ultimate recognition by the international community of this daring and innovative musician whose musical works represent a very important treasure of the world’s cultural heritage.

We must recognize that Sierra Leone would not be where it is today without the contributions of its paramount chiefs and other traditional leaders, of its Muslim and Christian religious leaders, of its diverse and active civil society, of its women’s organizations, of its often courageous journalists and of the country’s artists, above all its musicians.

[...] [...] impartially and without fear or favour and [...]

Concrete follow-up initiatives have included the organization of specific training sessions with a view to stimulating decision- and policy-makers to enact the right of universal online access to public and government-held records, to identify and promote repositories of information and knowledge in the public domain and to make them accessible to all, as well as to undertake the preservation and digitization of public domain information held by governments.

[...] [...] meetings or reduce the number of experts and the duration of meetings, whenever possible; $121,200 under travel of staff, mainly attributable to increased utilization of video conferencing, combining trips and/or reducing the duration of travel as much as possible; $460,800 under contractual services, primarily owing to increased utilization of electronic means of disseminating publications; $111,000 under furniture and equipment, reflecting reduced requirements for the replacement of furniture and [...] [...]

[...] [...] representatives of Member States, including through simultaneous distribution of documents in all official languages; requested the Department of Public Information to improve actions taken to achieve parity among the six official languages on the United Nations website; and requested the Secretary-General to submit to it at its sixty-fifth session a comprehensive report on the full implementation of its resolutions on multilingualism (resolution 63/306).

That, in view of the Administration's failure to take effective action to amend the 15 relevant Ordinances which bind the Government so that they also bind the offices of the CPG in the HKSAR and to complete the review of the applicability of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance to the CPG offices in the HKSAR, resulting in these offices not being required to abide by these Ordinances, and as the Administration has delayed the adaptation of the 35 relevant Ordinances which are expressed to bind, or apply to, the "Crown", this Council expresses serious concern and urges the Administration to explain the reasons for the slow progress of the work and to expedite amendment and adaptation of the relevant Ordinances.

The 12 Parts of the General Regulation cover matters from the procedural requirements governing the arrival and departure of local vessels, the navigation in the waters of Hong Kong, the berthing of, and use of buoys and piers by local vessels, the embarkation and debarkation of passengers, the safety requirements for handling of cargo, the use and display of lights and signals, the regulation and control of certain vessel registered in Mainland or Macau, the vessel traffic service permitting a report system operated through high frequency radiotelephone communication, and the imposition of control over some activities (such as racing events, water-skiing, fishing and bunkering activities) in waters of Hong Kong, and miscellaneous requirements enhancing the navigation safety of local vessels.