Examples of using Could not invoke in English and their translations into Russian
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A victim could not invoke a general comment in a court of law.
Ms. Kurultay(Turkey) said that the International Court of Justice had clearly stated that Israel could not invoke the right of self-defence to justify its construction of the wall.
Morocco could not invoke any right to occupy the Territory.
Moreover, under article 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, a country could not invoke provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.
The Maori could not invoke a supreme law to assert their rights because the Treaty of Waitangi did not form an integral part of national legislation.
That was compounded by the fact that judges in those courts could not invoke the Committee's interpretation of those provisions, as expressed in its jurisprudence.
States could not invoke a difficult internal situation- the presence of rebels or paramilitary organizations which also violated human rights- in order to justify their failure to respect those rights.
According to the Committee's General Comment No. 31, a State could not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.
Israel could not invoke the right to self-defence to justify military aggression against people that it had oppressed, colonized and collectively punished during its 47-year military occupation.
France's intention was to ensure that those spreading such messages could not invoke freedom of expression as a pretext for arousing hatred and imperilling public order.
Since international legal instruments automatically became part of domestic law once the State party had ratified them,he asked why individuals could not invoke those instruments before domestic courts.
Nevertheless, Governments could not invoke the lack of development to justify curtailment of human rights.
Turning to article 2,the Rapporteur wished to know whether police officers were informed as part of their training that they could not invoke the orders of a superior as a justification for acts of torture.
Thus, the State party could not invoke draft legislation, national debates, customs or traditions to justify delaying the Covenant's application.
Under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, States parties to an international instrument could not invoke the provisions of their internal law as justification for failure to perform a treaty.
The fact that a State could not invoke its domestic provisions to avoid its international obligations was also covered by an article in the Vienna Convention and had not been mentioned.
The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties explicitly stated that a State could not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.
That led to a paradox:with Switzerland's recent ratification of the Optional Protocol, women in Switzerland could submit complaints of a violation of any of the provisions to the Committee but they could not invoke the Convention before the domestic courts.
They further state that, although they invoked the Constitution, they could not invoke the rights of the Covenant since at the time they did not have a copy of the text.
A State could not invoke a rule of its internal law to justify its failure to comply with an international obligation, and similarly, an international organization could not invoke one of its internal operating rules to justify an act entailing responsibility.
Civil suits could be brought against members of the police and, under the provisions of bill 281, agents could not invoke habeas corpus in cases of alleged criminal activity on their part.
It was also noted that an official could not invoke higher orders to justify an illegal act, but it seemed that those who violated this rule knowingly were rarely punished.
Other delegations had already drawn the Committee's attention to the fact that one deficiency of the Statute was that a non-State party could not invoke the same grounds as a State party for refusing the Court's jurisdiction.
It is clear that, like States,international organizations could not invoke a circumstance precluding wrongfulness in the case of non-compliance with an obligation arising under a peremptory norm.
Austria: With regard to case No. 716/1996- Pauger(A/54/40), the Special Rapporteur met with a representative of Austria on 25 July 2000 andstated that the State party could not invoke domestic legislation in order to justify a Covenant violation.
That did not mean, however,that an Uzbek citizen could not invoke international law: many individuals had made submissions to the Committee under the First Optional Protocol to the Covenant.
Moreover, in their time the Charter's founders had stressed that if serious and flagrant violations of basic rights and freedoms took place which were a threat to international peace and security,States could not invoke their domestic affairs, and sovereignty could be restricted.
Given that the status of seasonal worker was by definition temporary,such persons could not invoke any right to a family reunification in the sense of article 8 of the European Convention unless there were very special circumstances.
It was further observed that the examples cited by the Special Rapporteur with regard to estoppel were, without exception, cases in which an award or a judgement had stated that,since the respondent State had been silent regarding the failure to exhaust local remedies, it could not invoke that failure at a later stage.
Under that distinction,States which engaged in commercial transactions with foreign nationals could not invoke their sovereign immunity with respect to disputes based upon their commercial activity.