Quotes about clauses (16 Quotes)


    The composition of the Security Council must reflect these fundamental changes. Japan is convinced that Security Council reform is a just cause for the international community -- as is the deletion of the long-obsolete 'enemy state' clauses from the UN Charter,

    That was very distasteful to me, to retaliate so to speak like that (against the Vikings). I do believe the commissioner should look into these kind of clauses. We work so hard on trying to gain labor peace and a new collective bargaining agreement and then we as clubs allow agents to get cute and circumvent it. On the playing field there are rules and there are unwritten rules about how the game should be played in the spirit and the fairness of it all. It doesn't make sense to me that we had to lose such a fine football player this way. I was surprised by the ruling.

    It was the failure of the non-discrimination clause. Other Catholic institutions, like Holy Cross, Notre Dame, and Georgetown, have much better clauses. It has nothing to do with our being Catholic it has to do with intolerance.

    The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.



    I say it loud and clear that the SPLM is vehicle with no reverse gear. I reiterate my commitment to the implementation of all the clauses of the (peace deal).

    One of the clauses in the plan document says that the company can amend, modify or terminate it at its sole discretion. For many years, they would only tweak insurance a little bit. Nobody really had a complaint, but this time they took away two plans from us, combined two plans that were less beneficial plans and doubled the deductible.

    The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

    Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

    The rookie would be free to negotiate contracts without reference to the salary cap. They'd be able to command much larger compensation packages structured in different ways than currently occurs. More up-front money. Straight salaries. Fewer option clauses.


    Suddenly, a blockage that had existed for at least 50 years was removed. What the Reagan administration was able to do was recover the original understanding of the religion clauses. Neutrality toward religion does not mean secularity. It means evenhandedness.

    There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and . . . it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power.


    Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

    I'm sure one of the clauses in AOL's deal with broadband partners was a fairly hefty commitment as far as how many customers would make the switch. Two dollars removes any sort of price-related inertia that their dial-up customers might feel.



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