I met many retired army generals occupying key posts.

By 31 October, the attackers were still occupying Tama.

Celebrities, his work was saying, have replaced religious figures.

Cricketers occupy a place in India s pantheon rivaled only by gods and Bollywood stars.

French ministries still occupy the former eighteenth century palaces of the King and his nobility.

Omar said that the number of Palestinian visitors to the Al Jazeera Talk blog comes in second place after Egypt.

This Conference was a manifestation of the State of Qatar's ongoing concern for its elderly population, which occupies a privileged position in Qatari society.

The views of office holders have moved much closer to those commonly found atop the income distribution.

...The teacher's strike comes at a time when we all find out again that Israeli students are ranked very low by international standardized testing.

Thanks to several development forums, the case for investing in young people has been made clearer, and today youth has come to occupy the centre stage of international development.

Once upon a time, Cold War enemies, white supremacists, and evil geniuses reigned supreme as Hollywood s favorite bad guys.

The first took place in 1896 in Athens in order to embarrass the Turks still occupying Northern Greece.

Of course, no one holds high office without making mistakes, even fundamental ones, and this is especially true in tumultuous periods.

Zhao s fate is also a chilling reminder of other injustices that are on the consciences of those now in power.

Meanwhile, Sapo National Park remains occupied by hundreds of ex combatants and local people involved mainly in gold mining and hunting of wild animals.

Experimental economists have found that subjects asked to play distribution games become much less generous toward those below them when they are in second to last place.

Although our central bankers are not perfect judges of financial stability, they are still the people who are in the best political and institutional position to ensure it.

Should the collective consent of indigenous peoples be considered more important than the individual property rights of non indigenous persons who may occupy the same territory? And how should such conflicts be dealt with?

The Office of the High Representative insisted that both men resign, upholding the principle that those in executive positions in the State should stand down on indictment in order to preserve the integrity of their offices.

In Tbilisi, Kiev, and Bishkek, the leaders of the color revolutions had already held lofty positions in regimes that they now attacked as thoroughly corrupt yet they succeeded in gaining the population s trust.

Even as these new displacements occur the Government is not responding with sufficient determination to protect the rights of those internally displaced persons who returned to their land for the agricultural season and found their property occupied by nomads.

Over the last two or three decades, technological change and increased scale have led to much greater productivity and much higher incomes for those at the top of society s income distribution.

In addition, the majority of ex combatants who were illegally occupying the Guthrie Rubber Plantation and the Butaw Oil Palm Corporation failed to register for reintegration programmes due to the lucrative nature of their illegal activities.

Such individuals, by living in the countries or regions they seek to assist, are not only well placed to study the problems and determine possible actions but can provide direct assistance to criminal justice officials.

4.4 The State party contends that this is a frequent situation in many States and that it is equally common to have procedures for waiving the immunity of certain persons in public posts when they face criminal charges.

ROTTERDAM People who are lower on the socioeconomic ladder (indicated by their level of education, occupation, or income) have shorter and less healthy lives, on average, than those on higher rungs.

In short, all that growth benefited only those at the top of the income distribution, the same group that had done so well over the previous thirty years and that benefited most from Bush's tax cut.

The crisis has underscored the utmost importance of macro prudential regulation. Although our central bankers are not perfect judges of financial stability, they are still the people who are in the best political and institutional position to ensure it.

Reforms to alter the boundaries of Congressional districts to make them more competitive would help alleviate this problem, but few incumbent Congressmen will vote for changes that might increase their risk of defeat.

Clearly, humans who now occupy almost 40 of the planet s ice free land surface are shaping many of the planet s fundamental processes. According to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, this shift is so profound that it amounts to the beginning of a new epoch the Anthropocene.