| Third, the semiconductor business is importantly shaped by confederations of producers banding together to promote technology standards. |
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| So Britain and Spain had access to Indian groups and lent expertise in aiding Indian confederations and alliances. |
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| Among the Chiricahuas and the Western Apaches local groups comprised loose confederations called bands. |
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| Everyone knows that the future lies in international cooperation, in federations or confederations of states. |
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| The stoppage was organised by one of the trade union confederations representing Alitalia employees. |
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| Italy has had three politically diverse and competing union confederations since the onset of the cold war. |
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| The actions were called by all seven of the main trade union confederations and all the parties of the left, including the Socialist Party. |
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| The same shall also apply in constituting confederations or to withdrawals from any confederation. |
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| However, services for migrants are often provided by confederations rather than by individual unions. |
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| Despite the quite significant role of labor confederations, political life in Honduras has been dominated by civilian caudillos and military strongmen. |
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| The minutes shall be translated into French or into English, as the case may be, and sent to the federations and continental confederations. |
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| Continental confederations shall draw up the regulations concerning the organization of continental cycling activities. |
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| During the predynastic period there were various confederations with political heads or kings who resided in a capital. |
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| The action, which is officially a one-day strike called by all the trade union federations and confederations, will be continued indefinitely by many workers. |
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| More than 150 people attended the opening session, including representatives from about 45 European and 30 African companies and confederations. |
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| All these people came into Fifa from their own various federations and confederations. |
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| The formats of the qualification tournaments differ between confederations. |
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| It also makes it clear that Inuit nations existed through history, as well as confederations of such nations. |
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| The known confederations were usually formed to defend against a more prosperous, and thus stronger, nation. |
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| Players from all six confederations have sat down for a chat over the past 12 months, regaling us with tales of FIFA World Cup finals, happy and sad memories and also what they have been doing since hanging up their boots. |
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| The three men are accused of bribing officials at the Conmebol and Concacaf confederations for TV and marketing rights of continental tournaments. |
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| Blatter cancelled a scheduled appearance at a Fifa medical conference to hold an emergency meeting with representatives of all six continental confederations at the organisation's headquarters. |
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| Nor would backers of the growing anti-globalisation movement. Voters such as these would prefer Sergio Cofferati, until recently boss of the CGIL, the largest and leftest of Italy's three trade-union confederations. |
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| Where confederations of trade unions and employers' organisations exist, they vary in the extent to which they participate in their equivalents at European level. |
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| The way unions organise, in particular the division of responsibilities and resources with the confederations above them and local union groupings below them, also colours the responses to some parts of the questionnaire. |
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| Continental confederations shall, whenever publishing their continental calendars, include world calendar races that are run on their territories. |
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| The participants recognised that national confederations need to join in the ETUC's fight for decent working conditions and workers' rights, in the context of the challenges created by new labour markets. |
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| Exceptions may be decided by the Congress with the absolute majority of the votes cast upon a request made to the Management Committee by the federation and both continental confederations concerned. |
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| The SDA works under the umbrella of the ETUC and is supported by the ITUC, several of the European Industry Federations, various national trade union confederations and union institutes for training and research. |
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| The review phase of the project began in June 2006, when partners met in two workshops: the national trade union confederations in Turin, Italy, and the European Industry Federations in Elewijt, Belgium. |
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| Every business entity, including associations, confederations and individual businesses of any size and from any country, is eligible for the Award. |
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| The Lithuanian confederations have issued a joint declaration about the situation and organised a picket of the Semjus, the Lithuanian parliament, on 15 January. |
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| The continental confederations are provided for in FIFA's statutes, and membership of a confederation is a prerequisite to FIFA membership. |
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| It cannot be that the European and South American confederations lay claim to the majority of the berths at the World Cup. |
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| Subsequently they were probably absorbed into the tribal confederations such as the Franks and Allemanni. |
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| Smaller tribes began to form loose confederations of smaller, more autonomous villages. |
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| Early in the 3rd century Germanic peoples migrated south from Scandinavia and reached the Black Sea, creating formidable confederations which opposed the local Sarmatians. |
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| Besides its worldwide institutions there are six confederations recognised by FIFA which oversee the game in the different continents and regions of the world. |
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| Some of the proclaimed Arab federations were confederations de facto. |
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| Chefs de mission from eight countries attended the meeting, while seven Zonal Confederations were represented. |
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| He has always looked the goods, right back to when he played here and was representing the All Whites in the Confederations Cup. |
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| After yesterday's 5-1 romp against the Solomon Islands playing away, the Socceroos will complete their 2005 Confederations qualifying formalities in Sydney on Tuesday night. |
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| Heading a nation where soccer is religion, Rousseff was roundly booed at the opening match of the Confederations Cup. |
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