Word: protocol
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could say President Bush's policy on international law is that he's against it--except when he's for it. Mostly, he's been against it. The Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gases? Not a chance. The International Criminal Court? Forget about it. The U.N. Convention Against Torture? Mere background noise for a White House committed to asserting the sovereignty...
...year-old Eastern European block of a man had made not a sound. His face hadn't registered a flicker of pain, his arm stayed still, even his hand remained limp. No reaction to this needle torture promised an unsatisfying go at the VAS. But dutifully she administered. Protocol...
...strong pain medicine, quickly. Another quick look from Vicki; she had only been in the room for two minutes with this patient yet she already had the same feeling, one that I was quite sure about: that there wasn't really that much pain here and that the VAS protocol (a hospital policy at that point) was wrong for this patient...
...Cooper's performance as this character is nothing short of astonishing: it encompasses a rigid posture, a snappish disposition and a careless contempt for agency protocol. One of the first things he does is send O'Neill out to steal a new computer from their colleagues down the hall. What begins to emerge, almost inferentially from Cooper's taciturn playing, is a portrait of a sharp knife nestled in drawer full of dull ones. A man this bright should have been on the bureau's fast track. Instead, he's on a side track, chugging along a bureaucratic road...
...have little impact on global warming. But policymakers believe that if the nation can develop a successful local carbon-trading regime, it will become easier to spread such institutions to the rest of the world. Largely because of reduced land clearing, Australia-which did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol-should meet an agreed target (limiting annual emissions from 2008-12 to 108% of 1990 levels). But the challenge beyond then could be formidable, and few people have contemplated its impact on the way they work, live and play. Already, through various government schemes to limit greenhouse gases and promote renewable...