One such case belatedly came to the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.

Very belatedly, links to the posts at East Ethnia and Belgraded, which talk about Dobrica Ćosić's Nobel Prize in Literature hoax.

President George W. Bush pledged albeit belatedly 350 million in relief to the victims, and sent high level emissaries to the region.

Someday, we might achieve closer global monetary policy coordination for now, however, it made sense for Japan to respond, albeit belatedly, to developments elsewhere.

But financial markets, even when agitated, are not blind. They are capable of distinguishing, however imperfectly and belatedly, between macroeconomic conditions in various countries.

Fortunately, even if Bush does not understand such basic principles, America s courts do, and they are now, albeit belatedly, forcing his administration to abide by them.

So, when Koreans, Filipinos, and Taiwanese rose up against their rulers, the US, albeit belatedly, was in a position to tell their military clients to back off.

But there is no sign of any such effect a point made, rather belatedly, in the Federal Reserve s monetary policy report to the US Congress last week.

And, because those who believed this (virtually everyone whose voices were heard) belatedly perceived its insulting connotation, discussing the matter has caused considerable anguish in the years since.

Although the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has belatedly urged its 85,000 members to support the Treaty, opinion polls show farmers are opposed to Lisbon by a two to one majority.

Turkey is belatedly engaging with the Middle East by mediating conflicts, developing economic relations, and liberalizing the movement of people, all initiatives aimed at promoting regional peace, prosperity, and openness.

Belatedly and somewhat reluctantly, EU leaders have now accepted that they need to deal pragmatically with Lukashenko if they want to promote reform in Belarus and shift the country from its tight orbit around Russia.

Against this background, it was not shocking that Greece, unable to come up with 1.5 billion at the end of June, became the first developed country to miss a payment to the IMF. Belatedly, the Fund acknowledged that its lending and policy advice had failed in Greece.

Israel belatedly announced, but did not carry out, a two day cessation in bombing Lebanon, responding to the global condemnation of an air attack on the Lebanese village of Qana, where 57 civilians were killed and where 106 died from the same cause 10 years ago.

But the much needed structural reforms to limit leverage and contain the risks that the financial system periodically imposes on the real economy and the public purse have only belatedly gotten off the to do list, and the prospects of enacting them are difficult to estimate.

That policy achieved almost nothing, save for bolstering the country s authoritarian leader, President Aleksander Lukashenko. Belatedly and somewhat reluctantly, EU leaders have now accepted that they need to deal pragmatically with Lukashenko if they want to promote reform in Belarus and shift the country from its tight orbit around Russia.

One such case belatedly came to the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. In November, the Committee concluded that Germany had failed to police the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe regarding its complicity in the forced eviction of several villages in Uganda to make way for a large coffee plantation.

And yet, this time, major Internet and technology companies, including Facebook and Microsoft, supported the bill, on the grounds that it would create a clear procedure for handling government requests for information. Microsoft, at least, belatedly dropped its support after recognizing that the law would allow the US government to force any Internet business to hand over information about its users online activities.