According to Plato, the Earth was a sphere, stationary at the center of the universe.

We have A.C. and D.C., get 12 volts D.C., so that could be used for certain applications.

The Kingdom of Bahrain is confidently and surely heading towards the brightest future in 2013.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil

A physical constant is a physical quantity that is generally believed to be both universal in nature and constant in time.

We note with concern that funding for peacebuilding has not yet been placed on a solid and reliable footing.

That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive.

The initial installation cost of a nuclear power plant may be high its operating costs, however, are relatively low and stable.

By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.

One of the objectives of NEPAD is to attract high and stable inflows of FDI.

Mandate holders must also be assured appropriate access, on an effective and consistent basis, to all bodies within the United Nations system dealing with issues of human rights.

recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world .

And this is something that sobers us in our field everyday in that, obviously, we've made remarkable impacts on cardiovascular disease, but look at cancer. The death rate in cancer in over 50 years hasn't changed.

That is one reason that businesspeople in so many parts of the world are demanding clear and consistent environmental policies.

In so doing, they are passing on to future generations the costs of today's unsustainable exploitation of natural resources and the excessive pressures on the absorptive capacity of the natural environment.

Unfortunately, empirical data, good, hard stats, don't exist, and therefore to prove my point, I first of all had to find some proxy way of uncovering how much food was being wasted.

Unfortunately, as things stand, this is a referendum that Blair will not win, because all polls show a large and solid majority against the European Constitution.

In France Under the current Constitution of France, organic laws are a short, fixed list of statutes (in 2005, there were about 30 of them), whose existence is provisioned by the text of the Constitution itself.

It also takes note of the author's argument that his wife and children live in Denmark under stable and reliable conditions and would, therefore, not be able to follow him, if he were to be expelled to Uganda.

Important yet rational investments have been made to assure that infrastructure remains viable, stable, reliable and cost effective and that it provides a consistent and adequate response to organizational needs.

According to the complainant, it may be concluded from the fact that her fears were realized that her allegations that she would be personally at risk of being subjected to torture if she were deported to Spain were based on substantial, established and credible evidence.

Measures taken to improve drinking water facilities included establishing the drinking water supply through a network of piped systems, installing a water reservoir, providing mobile and fixed water tanks and testing drinking water.

Recognizing that hostage taking calls for resolute, firm and concerted efforts on the part of the international community in order, in strict conformity with international human rights standards, to bring such abhorrent practices to an end,

And yet Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who still remains Russia s most powerful person despite his not holding the presidency, has enjoyed high and steady approval ratings for years.

Indovation (an abbreviation of Indian innovation ) is the process by which innovations are developed in India to serve a large number of people affordably and sustainably in response to conditions of scarcity and diversity.

Recognizing that hostage taking calls for resolute, firm and concerted efforts on the part of the international community in order, in strict conformity with international human rights standards, to bring such abhorrent practices to an end,

Recognizing that hostage taking calls for resolute, firm and concerted efforts on the part of the international community in order, in strict conformity with international human rights standards, to bring such abhorrent practices to an end,

Similarly, the Advisory Committee recommended acceptance of the Secretary General's proposal for UNIFIL which, like UNDOF, was a long standing, stable, and well run mission.

While the Monterrey Consensus did not fully address the concerns and special needs of small island developing States, we still view it as a useful and valuable framework for pursuing global development in a coherent and consistent manner.

Private sector provision of water services could be promoted by enhancing private sector confidence and trust in the State's governance structure through implementation of sound and stable legal and fiscal frameworks.

The boom was unusually long and persistent, with four years of roughly 5 growth a period of sustained economic dynamism not seen since around 1970.

One of the things that always frustrated me a little bit about astronomy when I was a kid is how it was always presented so two dimensionally and so static. As we pull away from the star here, we're actually going now out into interstellar space, and we're getting a sense of the space around our home star.

14. Underlines the fact that, together with coherent and consistent domestic policies, international cooperation is essential in supplementing and supporting the efforts of developing countries to utilize their domestic resources for development and poverty eradication and in ensuring that they will be able to achieve the development goals as envisioned in the Millennium Declaration

The State party's failure to address this aspect could not change the importance which the Committee should accord to their upbringing in a stable and reliable environment, especially if articles 17 and 23 of the Covenant are interpreted in the light of articles 9 and 16 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The inter committee meeting recommended that all States parties consider adopting a coordinated approach to reporting under all of the treaties to which they are party, and consider the option of establishing appropriate and stable coordinating institutions or mechanisms in order to support coherent, timely, sustained and thorough reporting.

The transition to decentralization can be supported through the existence of national and sub national forest policies, transparency, the presence of stable, democratic institutions, and broad based agreements through transparent, stable and coherent committees or stakeholder processes.