The United Nations has called for urgent humanitarian action.

The G 20 has called for more forceful action against corruption.

Since taking office, I have called for more strenuous action in Somalia.

General Assembly resolution 57 184 called for the development of an agenda for humanitarian action.

When some in the world called for sanctions and punitive action, South Korea pushed for dialogue.

Particular action was called for in resolving land disputes involving minorities or indigenous peoples.

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has called for coordinated action to sustain the global recovery.

Karen Sack, Oceans Policy Advisor, Greenpeace International, called for action to address deep sea bottom trawling.

Speakers also called for more concerted international action and cooperation to prevent trafficking in cultural property.

But she jumps to action when called to duty!

He called for support for the OIC so that it can perform its mission in promoting joint Islamic action.

Gender analysis is not used systematically and effectively in planning processes, as called for in the Platform for Action.

The authors of the report presented us with disturbing and often shocking reading, and called for action.

Consequently, the need to develop an agenda for humanitarian action, as called for in that report, was greater than ever.

In response to France s position, the Swedish government also called for concerted EU action to foster Roma inclusion.

Few countries have developed institutional mechanisms and processes for monitoring and assessing the status of implementation of the proposals for action on an ongoing basis, as called for in the plan of action.

Although President George W. Bush says he believes in markets, in this case he has called for voluntary action.

The representative of an environmental non governmental organization called for urgent action on both ozone depletion and climate change.

Corrective and preventive action (CAPA, also called corrective action preventive action, or simply corrective action) are improvements to an organization's processes taken to eliminate causes of or other undesirable situations.

He welcomed the Hyogo Framework for Action and called on the international community to support its implementation in developing countries.

In Ottawa, the Canadian parliament has called for similar measures, including asset freezes against those responsible for Magnitsky's death, as has the European Parliament, which has called for the European Union s member states to take collective action.

The major challenge for us all is to translate pledges to adhere to these values into concrete action through a variety of practical initiatives, as called for in the Programme of Action for the Dialogue among Civilizations.

Indeed, the Almaty Programme of Action called for particular consideration to be given to the special needs of landlocked developing countries.

A considered mechanism of action involves brain peptides called orexins, also known as hypocretins.

In the case of Syria, the West has repeatedly called for diplomacy while ruling out any military action, with predictably bad results.

She called for universal ratification of the Convention, in line with the Secretary General's appeal to turn the millennium commitments into action.

He called for further action in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice and greater efforts to reduce poverty, which fuelled crime.

The Annual Meetings of the Bank and IMF in September had called for translating those agreements into concrete action plans and measurable steps.

The Platform for Action accorded a particular place to the human rights of women and to the Convention, and called on the Committee to take the Platform for Action into account in its constructive dialogue with States parties.

Affirmative action, or positive discrimination, as some have called these policies, began with university admissions.

If no new information was provided, this action was called double jeopardy in his country.

The Philippines was striving to mainstream the gender perspective in all areas, as called for in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Millennium Declaration.

At their eleventh meeting (Maputo, March 2005), the HIPC ministers called for help in building their capacity to analyse debt sustainability and create a framework for action.

But the market system relies on a particular motive for action Keynes called it love of money which tends to undermine traditional moral teaching.

It called for renewed action to protect the human rights of migrants, children, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, minorities, internally displaced persons and refugees.

In this context, parliament called for a plan of action to get potential returnees without social security, especially women, back into the paid workforce.

Several speakers in the debate stressed the urgency of a global effort in tackling road safety and called for action underpinned by United Nations support.

With more education, as called for in the Programme of Action, women are better able to ensure the health and proper nutrition of their children.

These measures contribute to empowering elderly persons and promoting their full participation in society, as called for by the International Plan of Action on Ageing.

Other delegations called for a wider application of the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and the International Plan of Action to Prevent Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.

They also called for the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to follow closely action to implement the Bangkok declaration adopted at the Eleventh Congress.

The YMCA ratifies its support to the NGO Committee on the Status of Women position that called for no renegotiation of the agreed text of the Beijing Platform for Action.

What has come to be called money laundering, that is, the attempt to turn illicit gains into legitimate riches, provides one example of the need for action.

Since nuclear weapons could fall into the hands of non State actors, early action on the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material was called for.

They called for an immediate cessation of the radio electronic aggression against NAM Member Countries as it is an action contrary to the principles of international law.