21.   In protests to the State Department, diplomats here are accusing the authorities of violating international conventions governing access to detainees.

22.   International conventions obligate the United States to arrest indicted war criminals and hand them over to prosecuting authorities, in this case the tribunal in the Hague.

23.   Investigators are also hampered by international conventions that enable them to bypass banking secrecy only in the case of narcotics inquiries.

24.   Israeli law bans torture, and the country is a signer of the international convention against the use of torture.

25.   International conventions, as well as the laws of the United States and other countries, expressly prohibit charging seafarers fees for jobs.

26.   It is in serious violation of the many international conventions and treaties on human rights that it has signed and ratified.

27.   It is a blatant breach of an international convention.

28.   Meindl, who just returned from an assignment as the keynoter for an international convention on the future of semiconductors, was ready for the question.

29.   None of which is to say that international conventions and agreements are without merit.

30.   Over the past few years, the United States has been reluctant to accept the authority of a number of international conventions and organizations.