We applaud the greater pledges for increased aid.

We applaud the IAEA for those and numerous other achievements.

I applaud those initiatives.

I applaud your courage and determination.

We applaud Government measures adopted in that regard.

Someone who wouldn't rush to applaud Mwai Kabaki for winning a rigged election in Kenya.

We applaud in this connection the role of UNESCO.

At the moment, people applaud sustainable growth, but they don t vote for what it means in practice.

We applaud the efforts led by Italy in that regard.

All the same, I applaud Sonia Gandhi for her commitment to appointing a woman to this important position.

I applaud the efforts made so far in the run up to this summit.

Also, I applaud our readiness to address deficiencies in the management of this Organization.

We also applaud countries that have taken steps to reach the 0.7 per cent United Nations target for official development assistance (ODA).

Arabs seem increasingly willing to accept and even applaud the Obama administration s policy toward the region.

We applaud the Secretary General's proposal contained in his recent report on the situation in Sierra Leone.

We applaud the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for moving in that direction, and we welcome its measures to enhance the transparency of the distribution process for tsunami funds.

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They don't know who we are and they don't care. And if they did they probably wouldn't applaud.

We applaud the proposal to withdraw the draft resolution on the situation of, and assistance to, Palestinian children.

We applaud the proposal put forward by Mr. Jan Egeland, Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for renaming the upgraded Fund as the Central Emergency Response Fund.

We applaud the leadership role taken by the Governments of the affected countries with regard to recovery and reconstruction.

They tell me I m so good at talking about death that some of you even applaud me when I finish.

We applaud the Agency's continued fulfilment of this role as a catalyst for development of nuclear technology by the developing countries and as an agent for maintaining the safe use of nuclear energy.

We have to define the sustainability of growth in ways that create an attractive narrative for our citizens. At the moment, people applaud sustainable growth, but they don t vote for what it means in practice.

(i) Welcome and applaud the proposal of H.H. the Emir of the State of Qatar for the creation of the Fund and his contribution of US 20 million to launch it

Here, we applaud the Government of the United Kingdom for spearheading the International Finance Facility to support immediate front loading of ODA to achieve 0.7 per cent no later than 2015.

We welcome the information on implementation provided by nuclear weapon States in their statements and applaud Russia and China for conveying this in the form of a report to the Conference.

We applaud the international community for taking on opportunities presented by all these activities to stress that actions should not be taken that would lead to the weaponization of outer space.

Some advocates of a closer Visegrad cooperation criticize Poland's emerging strategy, while euroskeptics in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia applaud the Poles.

We welcome the outcome document (resolution 60 1) of last week's summit and applaud the negotiations that led to its adoption by consensus.

Neither the Israeli government nor its intimate ally in the White House can be expected to applaud the Iraq Study Group s call for a repetition of that logic, for it contradicts everything the Bush administration has championed.

We applaud initial efforts in that area and believe that, together, we can enhance the international response to meet needs in those critical sectors.

Too many people who applaud (as do I) the leaks by the former US intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden think that the job is done.

It was a fine speech, and Europeans will duly applaud it but listen for the growing undertone of anxiety that this bold young US president has just helped himself to some more of Europe s clothes.

I am obliged to applaud President Hugo Chávez of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for his timely Petrocaribe initiative on the export of oil and associated energy products on very favourable terms to the Caribbean.

We applaud the efforts to improve the Central Emergency Revolving Fund to strengthen the effectiveness of the United Nations humanitarian responses, as well as the mechanisms for the use of emergency stand by capacity for a timely response to humanitarian emergencies.

We share the expressed view that development, human rights, and peace and security are dependent on one another, and we applaud initiatives taken in those areas.

I wish to take this opportunity to applaud the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. ElBaradei, for his relentless efforts to conduct the business of the Agency in accordance with its statute.

We applaud those countries that have voluntarily met these targets and call upon those which have yet to do so to exert more effort in this regard.

This sort of behavior with activists and big energy companies uniting to applaud anything that suggests a need for increased subsidies to alternative energy was famously captured by the so called bootleggers and Baptists theory of politics.

We also applaud the leaders of Africa for their continuing commitment and steadfast determination to take bold steps in promoting sustainable economic growth and social development, reducing poverty, and achieving food security and political stability in their respective countries.

We also applaud those developed country partners that have achieved the official development assistance donor targets and those that continue to seek innovative means to supplement development financing shortfalls.

We applaud the efforts of the Court to continuously consult with civil society and other experts on issues related to the participation of victims in the proceedings before the Court.

I therefore applaud you, Madam President, and the rest of the Council for taking this decisive action today, for you have brought us that much closer to removing this dreadful stain on the reputation of the United Nations generally and on United Nations peacekeeping in particular.

We therefore applaud the Court's initiative in developing the so called case matrix, which, among other services, provides on line commentaries on how to define and prove the offences under the Rome Statute.