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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.

Members note that each of the LLP legislation in the provinces of Alberta, Ontario, British Columbia and Manitoba of Canada and the State of Texas of US has a stipulation that removes LLP protection for a partner who has actual knowledge of the default but failed to exercise reasonable diligence to remove it, whereas each of the LLP legislation of the province of Ontario of Canada and the State of Texas of US also has a stipulation to remove LLP protection for a partner who ought reasonably to have known of the default but failed to exercise reasonable diligence to prevent it.

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.

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Life-cycle rituals – birth; rites of passage; wedding, divorce and funerary rituals; games and sports; kinship and ritual kinship ceremonies; settlement patterns; culinary arts; designation of status and prestige ceremonies; seasonal ceremonies; gender-specific social practices; practices relating to hunting, fishing and gathering; geonymic and patronymic nomenclature; silk culture and crafts (production [fabrication], sewing, dyeing, cloth designs); wood carving; textiles; body-art (tattooing, piercing, painting).

Israel’s continuation of such illegal policies and practices, in addition to its continuing illegal, inhumane and shameful blockade of the Gaza Strip and the immeasurable suffering and trauma it is inflicting on the 1.5 million civilians imprisoned there, constitutes yet further irrefutable evidence of the occupying Power’s abject disregard for international law, including humanitarian and human rights law, as well as its rejection of the legitimate, inalienable and internationally recognized rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and freedom in their homeland.

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.

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.

MOST contributed to fostering policy responses to mitigate the negative social consequences of the financial crisis through a series of high-level fora: first, through a parallel event jointly organized by MOST and the Human Science Research Council of South Africa within the framework of the World Social Science Forum (Bergen, Norway, May 2009); secondly, through the thematic sessions addressing the issue at the Seventh Regional Forum of Ministers of Social Development for Latin America and the Caribbean (Quito, Ecuador, August 2009); and thirdly during the ninth session of the MOST Intergovernmental Council, on 29 September 2009.

As we are scrutinizing this Bill in this Chamber today, we have to consider how we should respond to these long-standing small wishes of these families, parents and children, which warrant our respect, that is, to lay down in the objects of a publicly-funded educational institution this minimum requirement so that when people, the education authorities and education practitioners see this in the future, they can reflect on whether more efforts should be made.

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.