Os salários dos empregados das empresas públicas federais são fixados por meio de lei ordinária federal.

All of Somalia's pirates come from one region, what makes their interdiction quite easy.

Although the international community may know where the pirates are or the ports they use, interdicting them would be quite expensive for the U.S. at this moment.

The efforts to stop the attacks have forced the pirates to shrink the area of their activities.

According to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, the boundaries of an exclusive economic zone exceed territorial waters.

Legislation determined by the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea included limitations on how much coastal water a nation could claim as its own.

The treaty on fair and responsible use of the world's oceans was struck in 1982 and came into force right away.

It has taken nine years for an agreement on fair and responsible use of the world's oceans to be struck since the Maltese delegate to the United Nations spoke about it.

Países considerados emergentes no cenário econômico mundial, como o Brasil e a Índia, podem não ser muitos afetados pela atual crise por serem detentores de matérias primas estratégicas e por pouco dependerem do consumo externo, ao contrário do que ocorre com os de economia mais desenvolvida.

Tal como ocorre no presente, o desemprego costuma ser um dos mais elevados custos sociais que uma crise econômica de grandes proporções acarreta.