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| Terms for subject Environment (6716 entries) |
| qorti | court (An organ of the government, belonging to the judicial department, whose function is the application of the laws to controversies brought before it and the public administration of justice. The presence of a sufficient number of the members of such a body regularly convened in an authorized place at an appointed time, engaged in the full and regular performance of its functions. A body in the government to which the administration of justice is delegated. A body organized to administer justice, and including both judge and jury. An incorporeal, political being, composed of one or more judges, who sit at fixed times and places, attended by proper officers, pursuant to lawful authority, for the administration of justice. An organized body with defined powers, meeting at certain times and places for the hearing and decision of causes and other matters brought before it, and aided in this, its proper business, by its proper officers, attorneys and counsel to present and manage the business, clerks to record and attest its acts and decisions, and ministerial officers to execute its commands, and secure due order in its proceedings) | |
| qorti amministrattiva | administrative court (An independent, specialized judicial tribunal in which judges or officials are authorized by a government agency to conduct hearings and render decisions in proceedings between the government agency and the persons, businesses or other organizations that it regulates; administration) | |
| Qorti Ewropea tal-Ġustizzja | European Court of Justice (The supreme court of The European Union which oversees the application of the EU treaties, decides upon the validity and the meaning of Community legislation and determines whether any act or omission by the European Commission, the Council of Minister or any member state constitutes a breach of Community law) | |
| Qorti Internazzjonali tal-Ġustizzja | International Court of Justice (Judicial arm of the United Nations. It has jurisdiction to give advisory opinions on matters of law and treaty construction when requested by the General Assembly, Security Council or any other international agency authorised by the General Assembly to petition for such opinion. It has jurisdiction, also, to settle legal disputes between nations when voluntarily submitted to it) | |
| qorti tal-ġustizzja | court of justice (A tribunal having jurisdiction of appeal and review, including the ability to overturn decisions of lower courts or courts of first instance) | |
| Qorti tal-Ġustizzja tal-Komunitajiet Ewropej | Court of Justice of the European Communities (Institution set up under Treaty of Rome to ensure that in interpretation and application of the Treaty the law is observed. It consists of judges from each member state, appointed for 6-year periods, assisted by three Advocates General. It sits in Luxembourg, expressing itself in judgements when called upon to do so in proceedings initiated by member states, institutions of the EC and natural or legal persons. Procedures are generally inquisitorial) | |
| qoton | cotton (The most economical natural fiber, obtained from plants of the genus Gossypium, used in making fabrics, cordage, and padding and for producing artificial fibers and cellulose) | |
| qoxra tad-dinja | earth's crust (The outer layers of the Earth's structure, varying between 6 and 48 km in thickness, and comprising all the material above the Mohorovicic Discontinuity (a seismic discontinuity occurring between the crust of the earth and the underlying mantle; the discontinuity occurs at an average depth of 35 km below the continents and at about 10 km below the oceans). The earlier idea of a cool solid skin overlaying a hot molten interior has now been replaced by a concept of a crust composed of two shells: an inner basic unit composed of sima (oceanic crust) and an outer granitic unit composed of sial (continental crust)) | |
| qoxra veġetali | vegetation cover (Number of plants growing on a certain area of land) | |
| qrempuċ tal-mogħoż | bacon and eggs | |
| qrempuċ tal-mogħoż | bird's-foot trefoil | |
| qrempuċ tal-mogħoż | birdsfoot | |
| qrempuċ tal-mogħoż | common birdsfoot-trefoil | |
| qrempuċ tal-mogħoż | lotus | |
| qrolla | coral (The skeleton of certain solitary and colonial anthozoan coelenterates; composed chiefly of calcium carbonate) | |
| qsim | crossing | |
| qsim ta' fruntiera | boundary crossing (Crossing of a state border) | |
| qsim tal-isforz | effort sharing | |
| qsim tal-piżijiet | burden sharing | |
| qtil tal-annimali | slaughtering of animals (Killing of animals for food) |