remain a dead letter

These ideas may well remain a dead letter, since there is no evidence of any political will to turn them into reality.

For too long, that coordination of economic policies has remained a dead letter in Europe.

However, this law remained a dead letter and was repealed 20 years later.

That is why we have to develop control mechanisms and the human rights clause must not remain a dead letter.

If there is no technical follow-up, then our demands will obviously remain a dead letter.

If sufficient financial resources are not available for these objectives, then the initiative will remain a dead letter.

That convention has remained a dead letter - it has never been used.

Otherwise, the majority of the good recommendations made herein will remain a dead letter.

Without such a framework, the Lisbon objective of a single integrated capital market, which we all want and need, will remain a dead letter.

Well, despite this amendment, this provision has, to a large extent, remained a dead letter.

So these texts remain a dead letter.

But everything will now depend on the European Commission keeping to the directive, so that it does not remain a dead letter.

However, these provisions remained a dead letter in practice, as the supposedly autonomous institutions were controlled from Prague.

However, the Act remained a dead letter during the colonial period of British rule in India.

Apparently this enactment remained a dead letter.

Several times in recent years the Chinese Congress has spoken of the need to create a harmonious society, but those words have remained a dead letter.

The Treaty of Hue remained a dead letter in Tonkin.

But the project has remained a dead letter, the villa has deteriorated into serious disrepair, and as many as a thousand books may have disappeared.

The human rights clause is too often allowed to remain a dead letter for fear that its implementation would jeopardise the success of particular economic or trade agreements.

Further, the Estonians and Latvians held a joint military exercise in 1931, but it was not repeated and collaboration remained a dead letter thereafter.

We are worried about the fact that the Edinburgh facility, the economic investment fund that was established in Edinburgh, has remained a dead letter.

{44} We do not know how thoroughly implemented the provisions were in these dioceses and territories, but they did not everywhere remain a dead letter.

Corresponding proposals have already been formulated in the OECD, but so far have unfortunately remained a dead letter.

Other analysts noted that a similar 1992 agreement providing for the reopening of road, rail and telecommunication links between Croatia and Serbia remains a dead letter.

Furthermore, the laws that provide protection, however minimal, for workers must not remain a dead letter, as is often the case, but must be made mandatory for employers.