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While Scandinavian countries, for example, have been exceptionally successful in surmounting gender discrimination and promoting gender parity, their legislative lessons and models are of little use in Pakistan, where those who hope to enact legislation to prevent forms of gender-based and domestic violence contend with fundamental debates, such as the question of whether legislation that affects how men treat their wives should be considered a violation of a widely acknowledged concept of rights.

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza: Troubled History of Domestic Violence Legislation in Pakistan Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2010

While Scandinavian countries, for example, have been exceptionally successful in surmounting gender discrimination and promoting gender parity, their legislative lessons and models are of little use in Pakistan, where those who hope to enact legislation to prevent forms of gender-based and domestic violence contend with fundamental debates, such as the question of whether legislation that affects how men treat their wives should be considered a violation of a widely acknowledged concept of rights.

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza: Troubled History of Domestic Violence Legislation in Pakistan Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2010

While Scandinavian countries, for example, have been exceptionally successful in surmounting gender discrimination and promoting gender parity, their legislative lessons and models are of little use in Pakistan, where those who hope to enact legislation to prevent forms of gender-based and domestic violence contend with fundamental debates, such as the question of whether legislation that affects how men treat their wives should be considered a violation of a widely acknowledged concept of rights.

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza: Troubled History of Domestic Violence Legislation in Pakistan Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2010

While Scandinavian countries, for example, have been exceptionally successful in surmounting gender discrimination and promoting gender parity, their legislative lessons and models are of little use in Pakistan, where those who hope to enact legislation to prevent forms of gender-based and domestic violence contend with fundamental debates, such as the question of whether legislation that affects how men treat their wives should be considered a violation of a widely acknowledged concept of rights.

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza: Troubled History of Domestic Violence Legislation in Pakistan Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2010

While Scandinavian countries, for example, have been exceptionally successful in surmounting gender discrimination and promoting gender parity, their legislative lessons and models are of little use in Pakistan, where those who hope to enact legislation to prevent forms of gender-based and domestic violence contend with fundamental debates, such as the question of whether legislation that affects how men treat their wives should be considered a violation of a widely acknowledged concept of rights.

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza: Troubled History of Domestic Violence Legislation in Pakistan Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza 2010

But when a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men to familiarize herself with these thorny researches, succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of them, then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius.

Archive 2008-11-01 Peggy 2008

But when a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men to familiarize herself with these thorny researches, succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of them, then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius.

Sophie Germain: Mathematical Genius Peggy 2008

We [...] shall first rely on the individual's right and capacity to advance his own economic well-being, to control the fruits of his efforts and to plan his own and his family's future; and, where government is rightly involved, we shall assist the individual in surmounting urgent problems beyond his own power and responsibility to control.

July 2006 2006

The exploitation of your natural resources has been greatly accelerated by the benefits of modern Science; I think immediately of Aircraft, Electronics and last but not least the magnificent new Seaway to the Lakes -- these and other symbols of the twentieth century have helped in surmounting the particular problems presented by the severity of your winter, and brought the outlying but important posts of your vast country within relatively easy reach of each other, whether by air, water or land.

Lloyd's Of London 1960

On the summits of both are curious conical caps (like those described as surmounting the gable turrets), from which ribs run down the angles.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See