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involving the entire earth not limited or provincial in scope as global war global monetary policy...

global debt facility designed to allow investors all over the world to purchase debt (loans) of U.S. dollar and foreign currency through a variety of clearing systems. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...

Global Depository Receipt

Global Depository Receipt, (GDR) means a security issued by a bank or a depository outside India against underlying rupee shares of a company incorporated in India. [Foreign Exchange Manage-ment (Transfer or Issue of Any Foreign Security) Regulations, 2000, Reg. 2 (i)]...

nuclear winter

a hypothetical lowering of global temperature postulated as the aftermath of a full nuclear war The mechanism of such an effect depends primarily on the injection into the atmosphere of small solid particles as soot from burning forests which reflect sunlight and cause a reduction in solar energy retained by the earth...

Construction

Construction, 'construction' does not necessarily mean construction over the land which must rise above the surface of the land in all contingencies, Jnanedaya Yogam v. K.K. Pankajashy, AIR 1999 SC 3891 (3895): (1999) 9 SCC 492. [Land Acquisition Act, (1 of 1894), s. 40(1)(b)]As to construction of statutes, see ACT OF PARLIAMENT; and of contracts, see Chitty on Contracts, Ch. v.; and of deeds, see Norton on Interpretation of Deeds.Partem aliquam recte intelligere nemo potest, antequam totum, iterum atque iterum, perlegerit. 3 Rep. 52.--(No one can rightly understand any part until he has read the whole again and again.)In contractibus benigna; in testamentis, benignior; in restitutionibus, benignissima interpretatio facienda est. Co. Lit. 112.--(In contracts, the construction ought to be liberal; in wills, more liberal; in restitutions, most liberal.)Includes any construction in place of an existing building which has been wholly or substantially demolished, Lal Chand v. District Judge...

Demolish or reconstruct

Demolish or reconstruct, Demolition involves the physical act of destruction and reconstruction is equivalent to rebuilding, and contemplates a state of affairs where there has been a measure of demolition falling short of total demolition, Ivorygrove Ltd. v. Global Grange Ltd., (Ch D), (2003) 1 WLR 2090....

Globophobia

Globophobia, can be loosely defined as fear of globalization. 'Dear President and Prime Minister....., you are alienating yourself from the people and may pay a price if you do not change course. Globophobia will erupt.' [Bharat! A Tryst Betrayed and a Tragedy Engineered in Justice Iyer, Off the Bench, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 247]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...

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