Definition: Personality disorder characterized by excessive sensitivity to setbacks, unforgiveness of insults; suspiciousness and a tendency to distort experience by misconstruing the neutral or friendly actions of others as hostile or contemptuous; recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding the sexual fidelity of the spouse or sexual partner; and a combative and tenacious sense of personal rights. There may be excessive self-importance, and there is often excessive self-reference. | Personality (disorder):expansive paranoid | fanatic | querulant | paranoid | sensitive paranoid

dialogue between management and labour at Community level | dialogue between management and labour at Union level

sparring partner

non-confidential partner-search network | BCC [Abbr.]

cooperate with cultural partners | work together with cultural partners | liaise with cultural partner | liaise with cultural partners

social partners [ both sides of industry | management and labour | the two sides of industry ]

Others who have taken their fight to the courts include Nancy Rosenberg and her partner; Margaret Evans and her partner; Stanley Moore and his partner, Pierre Soucy; Dale Akerstrom and his partner, Alexander; Chris Vogel in Manitoba; Jim Bigney in Nova Scotia; and Delwin Vriend.

They are the unsung heroes and those who we honour as our leaders. They include people like Jane Rule and her partner Helen Sonthoff, who just died, and Jim Egan and his partner Jack Nesbitt, who took to the Supreme Court of Canada the issue of the recognition of gay and lesbian relationships, who have celebrated their lives together for over 40 years, and who won a landmark victory in affirming the inclusion of sexual orientation in our charter of rights.

1. Notes that over 70 % of the EU population lives in cities, which generate approximately 85 % of the EU’s GDP, and that sustainable urban mobility is an increasingly important factor in cohesion policy, given that it is a key element and driver of employment and smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; considers that the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF), and in particular the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), should contribute, through the operational programmes, to the financing of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) for cities and regions and in the EU, by supporting clean, accessible and innovative ...[+++]forms of urban transport that will promote multimodality and mobility in a broader territorial context, including transborder mobility; recalls, in this regard, that the transport sector, both stationary and moving traffic, has a heavy impact on the urban environment and the quality of life of citizens, and considers that an efficient transport system can be fostered with a public-private partnership in which there will be a repartition of costs and possibilities to develop an innovative and efficient public procurement system with the aim of producing considerable savings and a sharing of expertise and knowledge between authorities; notes the importance of respecting the partnership principle during the programming and implementation of the operational programmes in order to ensure full involvement of social partners, professional organisations, research centres and enterprises;

14. Is aware of the fact that although rapid economic growth in China has created vast wealth, especially for the urban population, it has amplified the disparities between urban areas and rural areas, where 50.3 % of China’s mainland population live, contributing to a process of urbanisation and flight from the land and creating a situation whereby in 2011, for the first time in China’s history, more than half the country’s population is living in towns and cities;