complementarity


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a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities

the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other

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No country or international organization can handle all aspects of these new challenges, we must solve the problems together'', he said.France's Ambassador to Bulgaria, Erik Lobendel, also commented that it is not about European defense being directed against NATO, but about complementarity.
Complementarity is a law principle that states that there will be no overlapping in jurisdictions.
As a product of both public and private schools, Briones has been emphasizing the Constitution's provision that there should be complementarity between public and private education.
(2000) proposed that promotional bundles composed of congruent benefits--specifically, those with high attribute complementarity and benefit congruency--would produce higher purchase intention.
"Complementarity" refers to the ICC's power-with consent of the state party which ratified the statute-to deal with cases when national authorities are unwilling or unable to carry out fair investigations and proceedings.
But understanding the potential of complementarity is just the first step.
As a long-time women's ordination activist in the Roman Catholic church, I am delighted to see that Sheila Briggs and Miriam Duignan both address the dubious theory of complementarity in the "Separate and Unequal" issue of Conscience.
There once was a commonly held viewpoint that the information paradox could be resolved by virtue of a framework that is known--in the spirit of Bohr--as horizon or observer complementarity [2].
In Catholic circles, the term complementarity is often used to indicate a belief that men and women both have different--but balanced--attributes and skills.
In previous works (2 3) we have developed generalized Complementarity as a foundational Law for all realms of reality.
Imagining global solidarity: critical theory and complementarity