The Council acts as the focal point for the conventions.

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

This Russia saw as against its interests as well as being seen as a launching point for an invasion of Russia.

The result appears in a spectrum, as a pencil point, between the different political parties or candidates.

Similarly, we need to use more comprehensive wealth accounts as a reference point for decision making.

In October 2008, Mexico agreed to deport Cubans using the country as an entry point to the US.

A fair system will require agreement on the quality and quantity of information used as the reference point for the review.

To be realistic, the current fiscal compact governing the eurozone must be taken as the starting point.

The year 2006 could be used as the starting line for a broad implementation of those programmes worldwide.

The principle of a just division of water resources to meet the Palestinians urgent needs for additional water should be taken as a starting point.

(c) The organization of youth leadership summits that highlight the use of sport an as entry point towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals

Recent reports show Iraq as an emerging transit point for Afghan heroin crossing to Jordan and the Gulf States.

The government departments concerned have been instrumental in the implementation of pilot projects in the country as a starting point for their successful implementation on a wider scale in the region.

This initiative should be supported unequivocally, serving as a springboard for a stronger focus on green investment among SWFs.

These two regions have now proclaimed their independence, and Moscow has given its blessing to a secession that is likely to be the stepping stone to incorporation by Russia.

Rather, it seeks to provide policymakers with benchmarks that can serve as a starting point for discussion of beneficial reforms.

For example, in most countries that used the gold standard, the standard coin was kept up to a uniform point of fineness.

Agreed that the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) should serve as a focal point in receiving and processing political and donor assistance to the transition process.

The first was Oxford Shakespearean scholar A. C. Bradley's 1911 essay, generally regarded as the starting point for the serious academic approach to Jane Austen .

The Working Group is invited to use the annexed draft guidelines as a starting point to elaborate practical and concise guidelines for the protection of indigenous peoples' heritage.

Efforts must be made to adapt human rights protection to the changing global situation, and in that regard Italy used the European Union (EU) as its primary point of reference.

The main challenge is to stimulate income generating productive capacities with a view to promoting sustainable local markets, as a platform for subsequent regional and ultimately global export activities.

The second idea related to a decision that had already been taken by the Parties decision IX VII , which He noted that this decision called on Parties to report the destination and quantities of exports of specific substances, and the nature of those substances (newly produced, used or recycled.

Using the above hypothesis as a starting point, in the programme of work under my mandate I intend to analyse information on the following aspects

Lithuania stated that the Police Department under the Ministry of the Interior was designated as the point of contact to act as liaison between it and other States parties on matters relating to the Firearms Protocol. Malawi stated that the competent authority charged with the responsibility of coordinating and rendering mutual legal assistance was

Member States could use the event as a platform for effective and increased cooperation in combating transnational organized crime, illicit trafficking, corruption and terrorism.

As regards Africa and the Middle East, the North Africa and Middle East region is used as a trans shipment point for drugs from Afghanistan and South East Asia en route to European markets.

While each of these shocks may not qualify as the proverbial tipping point, the combination and the context are disconcerting, to say the least.

So having now a Neanderthal genome on hand as a reference point and having the technologies to look at ancient remains and extract the DNA, we can begin to apply them elsewhere in the world.

Women living with HIV themselves can be recruited as treatment advocates or distributors to ensure that care is gender sensitive Provide voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), consisting of both pre and post test counselling, to facilitate behaviour change and serve as an entry point for care and support for those who test positive.

Panama stated that it had designated the Ministry of Government and Justice as the national body or single point of contact to act as liaison between it and other States parties on matters relating to the Firearms Protocol.

He needn't go anywhere. He could have been in bed the whole time, but it's as if his health is a point in state space that you conceptualize as moving.

The Programme of Action is to serve as a springboard and strategic reference for the development of bilateral and multilateral programmes that emphasize crime prevention and the rule of law as key elements for achieving sustainable development in Africa.

A few months later, a part of the Peruvian liberation army of San Martin decided to occupy the independent cities of Tumbez and Jaén with the intention of using these towns as springboards to occupy the independent city of Guayaquil and then to liberate the rest of the Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador).

There are many other encodings, which represent each character by a byte (usually referred as code pages), integer code point (Unicode) or a byte sequence (UTF 8).

There is no recent information in the possession of the authorities that indicates that Rwanda has been used as a transit point or supply route for products, either legal or illegal, of any kind destined for Côte d'Ivoire.

South Africa stated that the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service had been designated as the single point of contact to liaise with other States parties on matters relating to the Firearms Protocol.

When you think about that, let me go back to what Lionel Trilling, in his seminal book on authenticity, Sincerity and Authenticity came out in 1960 points to as the seminal point at which authenticity entered the lexicon, if you will.

Therefore, as the most likely first point of entry into the Union, Bulgaria must be well equipped to meet the challenges that will ensue with the new expected waves of Syrian refugees in the coming months.

Experiences gained and lessons learned from the first year of the implementation in 2003 are being complemented by the Quality Support and Assurance system, which supports UNCTs at the regional level as a first point of reference.

It is important to Kevin's parents that he can experience his parent's life stance as a natural standpoint on his journey to adulthood and in his meeting with other life stances and philosophies.

The United Nations Office at Nairobi is finalizing the annual inventory stocktaking which will update property records this will be used as a starting point for implementing a system to control the movement of property between offices.

(h) To ensure that a peer review system which may be put in place would use treaty body recommendations as a starting point and provide the required political support in order to ensure their implementation.

In particular, there is rising concern that Guinea Bissau is increasingly being used as a transit point for drug trafficking between South America and Europe, as evidenced by the growing number of narcotics seizures.