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It wanted a civil service act to enshrine the non-partisan rights and duties of officials.
ECONOMIST: Tony Blair��s mighty servant
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The kuagro membership comes with a set of rights and duties towards other group members and entails strong internal solidarity.
UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage
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If deputies approve the nomination at their meeting on 26 September, Mr Mulkerrin will have the same rights and duties as ordinary members, other than the right to vote.
BBC: Denis Mulkerrin
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Either we encourage our Arab citizens to fully accept both the rights and duties of citizenship or we continue - through either populism of cowardice - to facilitate their rejection of our society.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Umm el-Fahm and liberal democracy
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The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (1933) sets forth what is generally accepted as the legal criteria for the establishment of a nation-state: (1) A permanent population, (2) a defined territory, (3) a government, and (4) the capacity to enter into relations with other states.
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According to longstanding principles of international law, when one country has a bilateral treaty with another and is then "succeeded" by a different state (as Russia has succeeded to the rights and duties of the Soviet Union under a number of treaties), the bilateral treaty remains in effect only if both states so affirm--the new state and its predecessor's treaty partner.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: What ABM Treaty?
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Equal rights and equal duties will in a just sense, I hope, be inferred from it.
FORBES: Extreme Makeover: Founding Principles Edition
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"Women... will enjoy full rights of membership, be committed to their duties, responsibilities and assume their jobs, " he added.
BBC: Saudi Arabia's king appoints women to Shura Council
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Among other duties, the office is charged with protecting the job rights of National Guard and Reserve members, some of whom are called away from employers for long periods of time.
CNN: Story Highlights
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While some observers believe the queen's signing of the Commonwealth Charter signals her implicit support for gay rights and women's equality, a Buckingham Palace official said the monarch is merely carrying out her official duties.
CNN: March 11, 2013 -- Updated 1612 GMT (0012 HKT)