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Occupation missionary with the archdiocese of Bukavu

The results so far are very promising.

The earliest results were not promising.

You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don't be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!

O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength lift it up, be not afraid say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

Despite these challenges, the prospect for peace between the north and south of the Sudan is promising.

But the dynamics are more promising than we have seen for some time.

In this sense, 2013 got off to a good start in Europe and the United States.

Country profiles provide a promising tool for presenting data on the implementation of the Convention.

We can say that despite the siege and destruction, despite the last war on Gaza, the pass rates are positive and the results better than those of the previous year.

A starting point for the development of technical assistance activities in the area of kidnapping must be an attempt to identify promising global practices in countering the problem.

The waiter, you know, came out with the white truffle knob and his shaver, and he shaved it onto my pasta and he said, you know, Would Signore like the truffles?

Behind the somewhat forbidding label of multilateral consultation are discussions that are the first of their kind, and that have proved to be a promising tool for dealing with an issue of global importance.

In other countries, of course, the outcome might be much more promising (The American Revolution, Eastern Europe in 1989).

Yet, despite persistent and even rising anti immigrant sentiment in much of the world, promising signs of a more enlightened approach to migration are emerging.

It does not look good for Obama and his Middle East policy. But if he succeeds in defusing the situation there, he would more than deserve his Nobel Peace Prize.

It will take years for the world economy to return to trend, in particular as the growth outlook is not very promising and unemployment continues to rise in the US and Europe.

Some recent therapeutic possibilities include the co infusion of haptoglobin with hemoglobin in circulation or with vitamin C additives that hold promising implications for the development of safe and effective blood substitutes.

The Committee viewed the pull out as a promising step that could revive negotiations within the framework of the road map aimed at the emergence of an independent, unified and territorially contiguous Palestinian State living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its other neighbours.

To this end concrete steps have been made towards broadening interaction with a number of international structures, including meetings in the United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund, bringing promising results in terms of future cooperation.

It does not look good for Obama and his Middle East policy. But if he succeeds in defusing the situation there, he would more than deserve his Nobel Peace Prize.

There are hopeful signs more than 160 countries have signed the World Health Organization s global tobacco control treaty, and the Caribbean heads of state have recently declared they want to tackle tobacco together.

If business conditions are auspicious and there is a strong consensus in favor of liberal capitalism as the polity s core economic principle, financial markets can develop and reluctantly absorb risks stemming from the legal system s defects.

Such examples of bilateral nuclear security cooperation, along with the International Atomic Energy Agency s nuclear security peer review service, highlight a promising point a willingness to work together on nuclear materials security need not compromise sensitive information.

Regional cooperation also holds great promise. Indonesia and Malaysia, which together account for 85 of the world palm oil market, have agreed to establish the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries, which will harmonize standards and promote environmentally sustainable production practices.

Nirupama Rao, India s ambassador to the US, has called such defense transactions the new frontier in US India relations and a very promising one at that. But, while it is certainly a positive development for the US, for India, it represents a new frontier of dependency.

Ms. Enkhtsetseg (Mongolia) said that her Government was encouraged that, three years after the special session on children, progress on its follow up revealed a more promising picture, with many countries having adopted plans of action on children and taken action to implement the goals in the final document of the special session.

Underutilization of capacity, however, remains huge. It will take years for the world economy to return to trend, in particular as the growth outlook is not very promising and unemployment continues to rise in the US and Europe.